The wholesale price of imported chicken in the Japanese market drops

Introduction: the wholesale price of imported chicken mainly for domestic food processing in Japan is falling rapidly As the representative index of Japanese market, the market price of Chinese chicken leg meat (Tokyo area, frozen products, wholesale price) is about 375 yen per kilogram, which is 38% lower than the same variety at the end of 2001 At present, the wholesale price of chicken leg meat produced in Thailand is only 405 yen per kilogram, which is about 33% lower than the highest market price at the end of 2001 The Japanese market food sales peak season is the end of a year and the beginning of the second year Because beef is seriously affected by the panic of mad cow disease, so people choose beef consumption to switch to other meat varieties that are relatively safe to eat Therefore, chicken is popular, market sales increase, and market prices rise From November to December last year, a large number of wholesalers began to import chicken from abroad, which even led to the increase of chicken stock After June 2001, Japan's chicken stock decreased significantly, compared with the previous year's significantly reduced stock, which has increased substantially to almost normal stock in December There are also factors of chicken exporting countries For example, the production of chicken in Brazil, Thailand and other traditional chicken exporting countries has increased by 5% to 10% over the previous year, and the quantity of chicken exported to Japan has increased greatly Now look at the chicken consumption in the Japanese market, the demand of the foreign food industry and the Chinese food industry has come to an end In the next peak season of chicken demand, by Christmas this year, chicken consumption can only show horizontal horizontal movement, not rise and fall Japan's Ministry of agriculture and forestry stopped importing chicken from the United States on January 12, citing the outbreak of bird flu However, there are some problems in Chinese chicken, such as the residual anti biological resources beyond the benchmark, which have been found by the Japanese Ministry of health and welfare in the autumn of 2001 If the problem of American chicken can not be solved soon, and the problem of excessive drug residues in China has been delayed for a long time, then this is mixed with the depreciation trend of yen, and the "strength" of the three makes the chicken market supporting the Japanese market not fall too much.