KOLKATA: The worth of dressed white meat has nosedived in all 46 municipal markets around the city, including New Market, which buyers see as a direct end result of the carcass-meat and dead-chicken scares.
A kilo of dressed white meat — which used to price around Rs 175 at New Market earlier than the carcass-meat and dead-chicken tales broke nearly concurrently—was once selling at Rs 120 a kilo on Friday. Ditto on the Kudghat marketplace, where a kilo of dressed white meat value Rs 110 on Friday, a precipitous drop from the traditional worth of Rs 175. But there’s just one situation: a customer would have to purchase the whole chicken.
“What do we do? The instances are rarely commonplace,” New Market white meat dealer Md Aslam mentioned. “We have saved this one situation—of consumers having to take one whole chicken—as selling pieces of white meat has turn out to be very tricky, with the dead-chicken controversy so recent in public reminiscence,” he added.
Aslam, who has been selling white meat for a decade-and-a-half in New Market, says he never saw this kind of huge drop even during the 2008 avian flu scare.
Aslam mentioned: “The KMC food inspectors have banned sale of white meat in parts in the municipal markets. So we should promote whole white meat. This has added to the sharp fall in demand.”
Mintu Karmakar, a white meat dealer in Kudghat, mentioned, “The worth drop has taken us through surprise. It happened most effective two days again. We promote a branded poultry white meat and bought dressed white meat at Rs 180 in keeping with kg even on Wednesday morning. This morning I’m selling it at Rs 110 in keeping with kg.”
The tales of carcasses being bought off as processed meat and useless white meat being handed off as recent broiler meat have taken their toll available on the market, mentioned Sudip Dhar, a white meat dealer at Manicktala Market. “The worth drop has been surprising. We slightly make a benefit now,” Dhar mentioned.
According to the dealers, road-side eateries and eating places form the majority of their consumers. “But they rarely flip up now,” mentioned Aslam.
Madan Maity, general secretary of West Bengal Poultry Federation, admits there is a sharp drop in dressed whole white meat prices, however expects a correction soon. “They are selling at Rs 120 in keeping with kg in maximum Kolkata markets,” he mentioned.
Confident of a self-correction in the prices, Maity claimed, “In Kolkata and the outskirts, there is a demand for 33 lakh kg of white meat a week. But we are selling most effective 22lakh kg-25 lakh kg. Once sales select up, there might be a price correction.” He mentioned the carcass scare has caused a accept as true with deficit between the consumers and the dealers.
A KMC inspector mentioned, “Raids performed according to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India tips will proceed. We have made it transparent that for white meat, live birds should be slaughtered in front of the shoppers and bought.”
According to federation assets, manufacturing value of poultry works out to Rs 82 in keeping with kg. The supply chain to the native dealer guarantees an incremental upward thrust in prices through over Rs 30-Rs 40 in keeping with kg. The Rs 110-Rs 120 value now leaves the white meat dealers without a benefit margin.
A kilo of dressed white meat — which used to price around Rs 175 at New Market earlier than the carcass-meat and dead-chicken tales broke nearly concurrently—was once selling at Rs 120 a kilo on Friday. Ditto on the Kudghat marketplace, where a kilo of dressed white meat value Rs 110 on Friday, a precipitous drop from the traditional worth of Rs 175. But there’s just one situation: a customer would have to purchase the whole chicken.
“What do we do? The instances are rarely commonplace,” New Market white meat dealer Md Aslam mentioned. “We have saved this one situation—of consumers having to take one whole chicken—as selling pieces of white meat has turn out to be very tricky, with the dead-chicken controversy so recent in public reminiscence,” he added.
Aslam, who has been selling white meat for a decade-and-a-half in New Market, says he never saw this kind of huge drop even during the 2008 avian flu scare.
Aslam mentioned: “The KMC food inspectors have banned sale of white meat in parts in the municipal markets. So we should promote whole white meat. This has added to the sharp fall in demand.”
Mintu Karmakar, a white meat dealer in Kudghat, mentioned, “The worth drop has taken us through surprise. It happened most effective two days again. We promote a branded poultry white meat and bought dressed white meat at Rs 180 in keeping with kg even on Wednesday morning. This morning I’m selling it at Rs 110 in keeping with kg.”
The tales of carcasses being bought off as processed meat and useless white meat being handed off as recent broiler meat have taken their toll available on the market, mentioned Sudip Dhar, a white meat dealer at Manicktala Market. “The worth drop has been surprising. We slightly make a benefit now,” Dhar mentioned.
According to the dealers, road-side eateries and eating places form the majority of their consumers. “But they rarely flip up now,” mentioned Aslam.
Madan Maity, general secretary of West Bengal Poultry Federation, admits there is a sharp drop in dressed whole white meat prices, however expects a correction soon. “They are selling at Rs 120 in keeping with kg in maximum Kolkata markets,” he mentioned.
Confident of a self-correction in the prices, Maity claimed, “In Kolkata and the outskirts, there is a demand for 33 lakh kg of white meat a week. But we are selling most effective 22lakh kg-25 lakh kg. Once sales select up, there might be a price correction.” He mentioned the carcass scare has caused a accept as true with deficit between the consumers and the dealers.
A KMC inspector mentioned, “Raids performed according to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India tips will proceed. We have made it transparent that for white meat, live birds should be slaughtered in front of the shoppers and bought.”
According to federation assets, manufacturing value of poultry works out to Rs 82 in keeping with kg. The supply chain to the native dealer guarantees an incremental upward thrust in prices through over Rs 30-Rs 40 in keeping with kg. The Rs 110-Rs 120 value now leaves the white meat dealers without a benefit margin.
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