SUPPLIERS DELIBERATE MOVE TO RAISE POULTRY PRICES

  • 15/06/2022

Kuwait City: Consumers have been protesting about the persistent scarcity of chicken in cooperative societies and parallel marketplaces, despite the government's efforts to improve food security, manage markets, and avoid any shortages of vital commodities. Following a surge in complaints from consumers and cooperative society officials alike about the severe scarcity of chicken and chicken products, inspection teams from multiple government agencies, including the Committee on the Food Security System, undertook a visit recently.


The tour revealed the existence of an artificial crisis by some supplier companies, which refrained from supplying the markets with its products in order to increase the prices by 20 percent. This was confirmed to the daily by officials. The tour, which was launched under the chairmanship of the Ministry of Social Affairs in some cooperative societies, revealed an abundance of some products and a severe shortage in others, especially local poultry products. Despite the assurances of government officials about the availability of goods and the abundance of food stocks, the commercial advisor to the Zahra Cooperative Society Abdul Rasoul Sarkhouh revealed that there is a problem in the process of supplying local poultry products to the cooperative societies.

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