Jorge Lopezleader of the Adicu, had declared to Subrayado that some cuts of chicken were missing in the market, especially the supreme ones, and that prices were increasing above the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
From Adicu, they demanded that the government make a previously agreed quota of 5% of chicken consumption more flexible, in order to cover the “insufficiency” of meat in it poultry market. The business association based its demand on a report from the National Meat Institute (INAC)where, for the first time in four years, a decrease in chicken consumption was recorded.
Through its document, Cupra rejected these statements, ensuring not only that “there is sufficient supply of chicken in the local market”, but also that “the price does not have abnormal variations to the usual ones close to the CPI.”
“Once again we must go out to clarify the distorted information that the UVC and Adicu decide to disseminate among the media,” he declared. Frederick Stanhamthe CEO of Cupra.
“There is no sustained increase in the price of chicken”
“There is no shortage of product in the national market and even less a sustained increase in the price of chicken in recent months, as butchers and distributors declare,” insists the letter from the chamber of poultry processors.
Likewise, they point out that the data recorded by the INAC and the National Institute of Statistics (INE)demonstrated that “both the slaughter and the prices remained in line with the usual behavior of this product in the market.”
Stanhampointed out that those involved know that the price of chicken increases and decreases in cycles of 3 to 4 months throughout the year.
“The price of chicken does not have sustained increases but rather decreases during some months of the year and then recovers its usual value,” said the executive director, however, he added that “when industry prices drop, and a lot, that does not is reflected in the values shown”.
The executive director of Cupra said that Adicu and the UVC take this time of year, where there is a greater difference in prices to generate alarm, but that “reality is very distant.”
At the same time, they also denied that work has decreased to generate an increase in prices, since it is higher than the same period last year.
Source: Ambito
