Moroccan Consumers Call for Boycott as Chicken Prices Double

For a few days now, the kilogram of live chicken has cost 20 dirhams instead of 10 in several markets and in different cities of the kingdom, which represents double the usual price, reports Al Massae. The increase in the price of this meat, popular in Morocco, has caused the discontent of many consumers. They have also launched calls for a boycott on social networks.

Faced with this situation, the Moroccan association of poultry farmers is trying to provide clarification. According to it, the surge in the price per kg of live chicken is explained by the cessation of activity of many small and medium-sized poultry farmers due to the health crisis related to the coronavirus.

The association deplores the lack of support from the supervisory authorities for the poultry sector. According to it, the "most vulnerable employees, but who at the same time constitute the backbone of the sector" have not received any aid. It also denounces the attempts of certain lobbies to impose a quasi-monopoly, prices to make huge profits to the detriment of small operators in the sector.

For prices to be revised downwards, the association calls on the supervisory authority to support small poultry farmers.