After the milk and butter cartons: a shortage of poultry in Israel Israel today

Avian flu and fewer slaughter days created a shortage of poultry in Israel, alongside products that are already missing from the shelf, such as milk and butter cartons.

An official in the food chain industry explained that the shortage is due to several reasons.

According to him, "First of all, Israel is the number one consumer in the world in terms of poultry consumption per capita, because they do not consume pork, for example. In addition, there is a shortage because the Poultry Council reduced the breeding quantities of eggs for breeding (not for consumption) in order to protect the farmers and it supervises the quantities. The slaughterhouses comply In addition, all suppliers reduced one slaughter day and went from 5 to 4 slaughter days and thus the supply decreased.

The price will go up, photo: Yehoshua Yosef

"On top of all of these there is a tremendous phenomenon of diseases and avian flu that caused destruction, which reduced the supply even more. That is, if in the original plan of the Poultry Council they reduced the reproduction to fit four days of slaughter, as a result of the diseases there is even less reproduction."

The same source estimates that in the run-up to Passover, there will likely be a continued shortage due to the great demand.

"import from Poland"

Another source claimed, "As soon as the days of slaughter are adjusted, there will always be a shortage. Poultry is not slaughtered all days of the week. In addition, now that the holidays are coming, there is more demand than supply and they are adjusting. Let them start importing poultry because it is 50% cheaper in Poland."

On the other hand, Moti Alkabats, secretary of the Poultry Breeders' Organization in Israel, claims that there is no shortage of poultry.

According to him, "We produce a larger amount than last year in the same period, and I say this as a grower, perhaps there is a demand for more. It is true that there is an increase in price, but it is due to an increase in the prices of inputs such as corn, and the ones who set the price are the marketing chains. Despite the morbidity and it was not an easy morbidity In the last three months in the winter months, due to avian flu in breeding pens, we produce more. The avian flu affected the quantity, but in the end we produce more."

The pressure on Tnuva is increasing

We will add that the shortage of supervised milk in cartons continues and worsens, and there is also a shortage of butter.

The shortage of milk cartons is due to infrastructure work in the logistics system at Tnuva's Rehovot dairy, which produces the milk in cartons.

At Tnuva they estimate that starting this week the supply to stores will gradually increase.

It should be noted that the shortage is not in the milk but in the milk cartons.

In order to increase production, Tnuva prioritizes production of supervised milk also in bottles instead of chocolate.

Although the production of milk in a bag is taking place as usual, there is no great demand from consumers.

Logistics center of Tnuva, photo: Reuters

It should be noted that since Tara reduced the production of supervised milk due to economic unviability, the pressure on Tnuva is increasing, and it has significant increases of hundreds of thousands of units per week. Therefore, as soon as Tnuva carried out infrastructure work, a market shortage arose.

Tnuva said in response, "At the end of last week, the infrastructure works were completed at the Rehovot dairy, for which there were shortages of Tnuva milk in cartons."

All production setups are now working properly.

Starting this week, supplies to stores will gradually increase.

Tnuva continues to work around the clock, to satisfy the demand and prioritizes the production of supervised milk also in bottles, instead of the production of chocolate."

In the meantime, the Chairman of the Economic Committee, MK David Bitan announced today (Sunday) in the Economic Committee that it is impossible to continue with this situation where there is no monitored milk in the supermarkets and said that he will request a meeting with the Minister of Finance.

"Look at where we have come, the small dairies are unable to produce, the large ones don't want to and there is no monitored milk, so they send people to buy more expensive milk. The price of milk is going to increase by 16%, the small dairies are losing, and with monitored milk, the big ones are also losing, and the government and the treasury have to take care of it. The dairies don't There is a need to lose, and the price should not rise, until the situation in the world settles down. Either the cost of living is taken care of or not, and it is no longer a cost of living, it is a requirement that there be basic products for the consumer. What do you want us to buy only the fatty cheeses? It seems to me that there is no choice and I will request a meeting with the minister The Treasury, I thought you were conveying messages to him. It is impossible to leave this situation where there is no monitored milk in the supermarkets. Why is there monitored milk? So that this product is not on the market? The prices must drop."

The price must come down.

MK Bitan, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The CEO of the Poultry Council, Shmuel Levit, told the Economic Committee today that the reports about the expected increase in poultry prices are not true. Levit said this in response to a question from the chairman of the Economic Committee, MK David Bitan, who convened a discussion today on the subject of the expected increase in the price of chicken and asked whether It is true that the prices of chicken for Passover will jump by 45%, and how do you deal with this? Levitt replied, "The Poultry Council has all the data, and as of now, and I expect the Passover period, there is no reason for there to be any change. Today, the marketing chains buy the whole chicken for 12.5-13 NIS per kilo And before Passover no change is expected."

The CEO and owner of the market warehouse chain, Shalom Naaman, said that "it's a matter of supply and demand and there has never been a holiday before which prices did not rise". He estimated that the increase before Passover will be about 10-15 percent and the reason is supply and demand.

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