United States imports eggs from Korea, Turkey to help ease prices

An avian flu outbreak has curtailed the proviso of eggs successful the United States, pushing up prices. Photo: Frederic J. BROWN / AFP
Source: AFP

United States is importing Turkish and South Korean eggs to easiness an avian flu-fueled proviso crunch that has pushed up prices crossed the country, Donald Trump's agriculture caput confirmed Friday.

Brooke Rollins told reporters successful Washington that imports from Turkey and South Korea had already begun and that the White House was besides successful talks with different countries astir temporarily importing their eggs.

"We are talking successful the hundreds of millions of eggs for the abbreviated term," she added.

The outgo of eggs has skyrocketed owed to aggregate vertebrate flu outbreaks successful the United States, forcing farmers to cull astatine slightest 30 cardinal birds and sharply constraining supply.

On the governmental battlefield, ovum prices became an improbable rallying constituent for Trump connected the run way arsenic helium sought to capitalize connected voters' frustrations with the rising outgo of indispensable items during his predecessor Joe Biden's presidency.

After returning to bureau successful January, Trump tasked Rollins with the occupation of boosting the proviso of eggs, and bringing down prices.

In the weeks since, producers successful respective countries person reported American involvement successful their produce, with the Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations telling AFP that they had been approached by US diplomatic unit connected the hunt for caller eggs.

"There is simply a shortage of eggs successful galore countries," Katarzyna Gawronska, manager of the Poland's National Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers, said recently. "The cardinal question would beryllium what fiscal conditions would beryllium offered by the Americans."

Speaking to reporters connected Friday, Rollins said that imports of eggs would beryllium time-limited, and would halt erstwhile US poultry farmers were capable to ramp up supply.

"When our chickenhearted populations are repopulated and we've got a afloat ovum laying industry going again -- hopefully successful a mates of months -- we past displacement backmost to our interior ovum layers and moving those eggs retired onto the shelf," she said.

Source: AFP