Posted on 01/19/2024 5:20:14 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Kazakhstan has agreed to help Russia alleviate its chronic shortage of chicken eggs only to spark grumbling from domestic consumers in border areas who now say there is not enough for them to buy.
The pledge of assistance arrived at a meeting on trade issues between Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin and his Russian counterpart, Alexei Overchuk, in Astana on January 17.
Eggs featured on the agenda. As the Russian state statistics service has reported, the price of the commodity soared by more than 61 percent last year, prompting the government in Moscow to adopt some radical fixes. One was a plan to exempt 1.2 billion eggs from customs duties in the first half of this year.
But first Russia needs to find somebody to supply the eggs. At the Astana meeting, Overchuk asked for Kazakhstan’s help, and he received a positive response.
Zhumangarin instructed the Agriculture Ministry to increase the supply of eggs to Russia as soon as possible.
“In matters of food security, flexibility in decision-making is necessary,” he said.
But this gesture of goodwill is not going down well in Kazakhstan, which has struggled for years to cope with its own inflation woes.
On January 18, residents in the northwestern city of Uralsk told journalists that they have seen a quota imposed on the number of eggs being sold at state-run stores, where goods are traded at subsidized prices. The limit is 10 per person.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurasianet.org ...
They are scrambling to help find more eggs...............
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One finds something interesting about Eurasianet, the latest "egging one on" source:
NUDGING. MESSAGING. From the hallowed halls of Columbia University and with financial "egging on" from those wack Google and Open Society folks.Quite interesting, as eurasianet.org was registered in 2000 in New York. Their "About" page states "Eurasianet is a tax-exempt [501(c)3] organization based at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, one of the leading centers in North America of scholarship on Eurasia. We are funded by Google, the Open Society Foundations, the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the National Endowment for Democracy, Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and other grant-making institutions, and are advised by a board of trustees."
As to other egg stories which seem to NOT generate as much New York-based grumbling:
Egg prices in the EU increase by 30% over one year Eurostat, 10 March 2023So much news, eh?EU inflation pushes egg prices up by an average 30% in January Reuters, 10 March 2023
Egg Prices Up By Close To A Third Across European Union ESE Magazine, 6 April 2023
https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2024/01/11/egg-prices-jump-as-avian-flu-spreads-pushing-up-overall-food-prices-cpi-reveals Food Navigator, 11 January 2024
Egg prices predicted to remain at record high throughout 2023 Just Food, 6 April 2023
Egg prices exploded 60% higher last year. These food prices surged too CNN, 13 January 2023
Ukraine’s egg production drops by 16%, UkrLandFarming blames NABU Kyiv Post, 19 March 2021 -- pre-invasion, one notes
Eggs off the menu as Japan battles bird flu crisis BBC, 12 April 2023
Controversy over lack of eggs has been years in the making Stuff, New Zealand, 3 Janaury 2023
California bird flu outbreak could lead to higher egg prices MSN, 4 January 2024
America's Egg Shortage Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse Newsweek, 30 January 2023
Russia is begging Kazakhstan for eggs.
Begging? An interesting characterisation. The article states: “.... exempt 1.2 billion eggs from customs duties....” Sounds like buying. Or at least an offer to buy.
I heard there was a huge shipment of eggs from Azerbaijan last week in the holds of an A-50 and an IL-22 that were about to transit the Sea of Azov enroute to Moscow.
I wonder what happened to it.
You heard, did you? You must be very well connected indeed....
“In matters of food security, flexibility in decision-making is necessary,” he said.
Translation: If there’s not enough for both Russia and Kazakhstan, then Kazakhstanis are the ones who should starve. Russia is the conqueror in this relationship, after all.
Everyone owns their own chickens over in that part of the world. Even in the cities many do.
Bring back “eggs are bad for you” and that’ll fix the shortage problem.
Eggs or seeing Putin with his shirt off? What turns on you on more, Marcus?
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Eggs are the standard 10 pack per carton there. 129 rubles = 1.75 dollars per dozen as sold here. The video was posted about 10 hours ago. As demonstrated here, Russia is 20 cents cheaper that Aldi's, and 2 cents higher that Walmart.
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Here is the price of eggs at Aldi's and Walmart today.
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So, what is your fascination of Russian eggs prices and shortages?
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