Trump’s administration plans to introduce eggs from Turkish and South Korea and talk to other countries in the hope that it will alleviate all the time of high prices of an American consumer, officials confirmed.
“In the short term we talk in hundreds of millions of eggs,” he told reporters at the White House, the secretary of the Brooke Rollins agriculture.
This is followed by an announcement of an administration on a plan of $ 1 billion (£ 792 million) to combat the angry bird’s flu epidemic that forced US farmers to reduce tens of millions of chickens.
Despite the fact that the campaign of President Trump promised to reduce prices, egg costs increased more than 65% in the last year, and that is It is predicted to grow by 41% 2025.
Rollins said her department also talked to other countries to secure new stocks but did not specify which regions.
“When our chicken population is inhabited and we have a full egg industry again, we hope to transfer to our inner layers of eggs in a few months and move those eggs to the shelf,” she said.
Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations announced on Friday that they were also joined by embassies regarding possible egg exports, AFP reported.
“Back in February, the US Embassy in Warsaw asked our organization if Poland would be interested in exporting eggs to the US market,” Katarzyna Gawronic, director of the National Chamber of Peradi and food manufacturers, told the news agency.
In February, the US Ministry of Agriculture revealed a plan of $ 1 billion, with five points to solve egg prices, with a budget of $ 500 million for biological security measures, approximately $ 100 million to research and develop vaccines and $ 400 million for financial resurbs programs of farmers.
Trump’s administration announced that it would provide commercial egg farm for free of charge and will pay up to 75% of the cost to resolve vulnerability to prevent bird flu.
“Our plan was to invest a significant amount of money to do the audits across the country to help these eggs to provide their barns for these eggs,” Rollins said. “… and since we started doing it lately, we’ve seen a significant fall in bird flu.”
Although the birds of the flu, or H5n1, has been circulating among American poultry flocks for years, the epidemic starting at the age of 2022 has devastated on the farms, killing more than 156 million birds and sending egg prices.
Egg prices have become a gathering for Trump in last year’s presidential running because he sought to use the frustration of voters with the growing costs of basic items.
During his address to the US Congress earlier this month, he blamed the growing prices of eggs for his predecessor Joe Biden.
“Joe Biden has especially let the price of the eggs out of control – and we are working hard to put it down,” he added.
Egg prices have increased because the bidel administration has ordered millions of birds that are aligned last year in the midst of the outburst of bird flu, although prices continued to grow during the early stages of Trump’s second Presidency.
