Chicken Egg Prices Rise, Badanas Denies There Is A Link To Food Assistance For Handling Stunting

The National Food Agency (Bapanas) denied that the price of chicken eggs in the market was starting to increase, due to the government's food assistance program for stunting management.

For your information, the food assistance package provided by the government in the form of 1 kg of Karkas chicken meat or about 0.9 to 1.1 kg and 10 eggs for 1 stunting-prone family (KRS). This program targets 1.4 million KRS.

Based on data from the National Food Agency price panel, Thursday, March 7 at 09.30 WIB, the price of broiler eggs was observed to increase by 0.70 percent or Rp220 silver. The national price of eggs is Rp31,500 per kilogram (kg).

Head of NFA Arief Prasetyo Adi said that the contraction in the price of chicken eggs in the market has become the government's attention, in this case the National Food Agency. He also denied that the food assistance program for stunting management was the cause of the increase in egg prices.

"There is an issue that says the price of eggs has increased, he said because of the egg food assistance program. I explained the food assistance from NFA together with ID FOOD in the form of eggs and chicken meat for stunting risk families, we have not started. Even though the price of eggs rose today, because a month ago the price of feed corn was Rp. 9,000 per kg," he said in an official statement, Thursday, March 7.

The price of feed corn, continued Arief, is a crucial element for forming broiler eggs. When the price of feed corn reaches Rp. 9,000 per kg, the government disburses the food supply and price stabilization program (SPHP) for feed corn to farmers at a price of Rp. 5,000 per kg.

"Regarding the price of eggs and chickens today, more than 50 percent is because the feed is from dry flat corn. At that time the price of corn was close to Rp. 9,000 per kg, so the government imported 250.000 tons through Perum Bulog," he explained.

"Distributed to small independent breeders according to data verification obtained from the Director General of PKH of the Ministry of Agriculture (Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health of the Ministry of Agriculture)," continued Arief.

As of March 6, Arief continued, Perum Bulog in distributing Government Corn Reserves (CJP) as part of the SPHP program has touched 201,000 tons or 51 percent of the total allocation of 343,000 tons.

The distribution of breeders is in 18 provinces including DKI Jakarta and Banten, Jambi, South Sumatra, Lampung, Central Java, Special Region of Yogyakarta, West Java, East Java, Bali, East Kalimantan, West Sumatra, West Kalimantan, North Sumatra, North Sulawesi, South Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, and Central Sulawesi.