Lack of eggs on the Polish market? Recently, reports of alleged egg deficiencies in retail have started to appear in the media. “There are no shortcomings on the Polish market” – the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development told the statement. The ministry explains that The deficiencies can only apply to free -range farming eggs (so -called ones), which is to be the result of commercial networks that withdrew such products. The problem of free -range eggs may increase.
Ministry's translations: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that “Acquiring safe food at an acceptable price by consumers, which only becomes the implementation of ideological slogans, brings with it turmoil“In many countries of the world we are witnessing this.
High egg prices: In August 2024, the eggs began to be eager, a In January and February this year, price increases at the level of several dozen percent are recorded. According to the European Commission data, pierceston February and March this year The average price of eggs in the plants was 13.1 percent. higher than in the same period ago. In egg packaging on February 2, 2025, you have to pay 65.15 zlotys for 100 pieces of cage class eggs, and a year ago it was 62.73 zlotys. They cost PLN 82.76 (PLN 74.77 a year ago), and PLN 86.13 (PLN 85.77 a year ago).
Bird flu: There is a shortage of eggs on the market because of the bird flu, which It led to the breaking of about 6 million pieces of laying hens in Poland. Central Statistical Office at the beginning of 2025 noted an increase in the number of chickens. This shows that the industry has reacted to increased demand and to the need to rebuild herds of laying hens. There are also problems in the USAWhere prices Eggs increased by over 15 percent. From December to January, and compared to the previous year is an increase of over 50 percent.
More You can read about this in the article: “Egg prices begin to give a headache. Large height. What's going on?“.
Sources: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Integrated System of Agricultural Market Information MRiRW, Gazeta.pl 1, Gazeta.pl 2