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The National Society for Consumer Protection continues to receive hundreds of complaints daily from all governorates of the Kingdom about the insane rise in the prices of chicken of all kinds before and at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, with rates reaching more than 35% in some areas in light of an incomprehensible silence from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. And supply, which is always satisfied that we monitor the prices of goods.
Dr. Muhammad Obeidat, President, said that we understand that when demand for any commodity increases, its price rises, but what happened to chicken exceeded all expectations and all the rates of increase that affected this basic commodity that cannot be dispensed with on the tables of Jordanians, especially in the holy month of Ramadan, when it is considered an alternative commodity to meat. Red products are sold at exaggerated prices and citizens cannot buy them. This is because the relevant official authorities must work to combat monopolistic practices to maintain compatible and fixed prices for basic commodities.
Dr. Obaidat called on the Ministry to set price ceilings on this basic material as soon as possible, and to violate anyone who raises the price of any commodity unjustly, with limits higher than the profit margins, in accordance with the tools given to it by law.
Dr. Muhammad Obaidat stated that there must be a balancing act between demand (consumption) and supply (production), which was supposed to be carried out by the relevant official authorities before the beginning of the holy month, especially since every year the prices of this basic material rise due to the rush on... Buying, which encourages some merchants to control and control prices without supervision or accountability and reap huge profits at the expense of citizens who suffer from difficult economic conditions.
Dr. Obaidat added that through our follow-up to the Ministry’s media statements and before the beginning of the holy month, it, along with the relevant authorities, took all measures that would keep the price as it is or with a slight increase on the first day of the blessed Ramadan. This is because the participatory decision that was taken by The Ministry and the private sector accepted to ban the export of “hatching” eggs until mid-February in order to make it easier for small farmers to provide the required quantities of chicken in Ramadan, but what is happening now in terms of chaos in poultry prices shows that this decision has gone unheeded and confirms that traders are still... They control the market.
Dr. Obaidat also touched on the issue of the market need for chicken in the month of Ramadan, according to the producers’ media statements by providing an amount of 25 million birds of chicken, and that the actual market need is 20 million birds, meaning an increase of 5 million birds of chicken, in addition to the presence of about six thousand tons of chicken. Imported and local frozen. If this indicates anything, it indicates that there is a surplus in the quantities supplied at the expense of the required, and therefore, why this unjustified rise in prices.
Dr. Obaidat called on citizens not to rush to buy this commodity in particular until its prices decrease as a result of not buying it and not Buying basic and Ramadan goods in general quantities so that their prices do not rise and serve as an excuse for raising their prices.