Some poultry farmers in Lagos State have blamed the consistent hike in the price of the produce to the manipulations of middlemen and cost of raw materials.
The poultry farmers made this known in Lagos on Friday, June 20, 2025.
The National Publicity Chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Godwin Egbebe, blamed the hike on the greedy of middlemen, who he said exploit the prices for more gain.
Egbebe said: “The reason for the price hike of poultry produce is closely linked to the problem of the middlemen. Poultry farmers do not make as much profit as the middlemen.
“The only time we were able to fight the middlemen and regularise the price of poultry was during the Ounje Eko intervention by the Lagos State Government.
“The middlemen for some time during that period were unable to exploit the prices because the government was our major off-taker.”
He noted that the price of poultry produce had been on the increase since the suspension of the Ounje Eko programme due to the activities of the middlemen.
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Egbebe added: “Other factors like the price of raw materials for poultry feed such as corn, soya, and groundnut paste have also increased. At farm gate, a crate of egg sells between N5,000 and N5,100 depending on the size.
“While the middlemen on the other hand sells between N5,800 and N6,200 depending on the size.
“We hope the Lagos State Government will extend its intervention in the poultry sector to cripple the price manipulations of the middlemen.”
A poultry farmer, Adeniyi Adeniji, said the price increase was not peculiar to the sector but across the food sector.
Adeniji stated: “The price increase in the poultry sector is not peculiar to the sector only. There are price increase across all food produce sectors in the market.
“Although the price of some raw materials for feed production is a major reason for the price hike, as farmers, we try as much as possible to maintain a consistent price rate.”
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