The shortage of containers to transport eggs delayed the distribution of food in the province of Villa Claralocal authorities admitted to the official press.
The general director of the Poultry Company in Villa Clara, Lázara Montes de Oca, explained this Tuesday to the official radio station CMHW that the lack of containers in the country caused the delays with the production and processing of the egg of the basic basket, corresponding to June.
He said that the distribution of 1,300,000 units of eggs in that territory is still pending, but that “before or during June 30 we will conclude the deliveries in all the warehouses of the province.”
He commented that for July “the same thing does not have to happen” as May and June in the distribution of eggs, which has been done almost at the end of each month, “because egg production is maintained.”
He also assured that the company has all the logistics to complete the distribution corresponding to June of five units per consumer in that province in the center of the island.
The egg that was always the savior of every meal on the Cuban table has recently become a prohibitive food.
Last May, a Cuban denounced that in the midst of the inflation that hits the population, the price of a carton of eggs on the black market already reached 1,600 pesos in the municipality of Güines, province of Mayabeque.
“I really do not want to make these types of publications, but it gets out of hand, 1,600 pesos is worth a carton of eggs in Güines. Gentlemen, this is half the salary of any worker. Food is not a luxury, it is something that is necessary to live. As I usually say, Cuba has already died!!!”, commented on that occasion on Facebook the user Rafael Gómez Acevedo.
Despite being considered the cheapest protein that exists, the egg is becoming increasingly scarce in Cuba, due to the impossibility of the national industry to produce feed to feed the chickens, which is why it has become a highly coveted and expensive product.
In mid-April, the influencer Yoandi Montiel Hernández, better known as El Gato de Cuba, who was released at the beginning of the month after spending almost two years in prison for political reasons, he was shocked by the high price the egg had on the black market.
“Hey, pay attention here, the egg… the egg… is worth 100 pesos, that is, the carton is worth 3 thousand. Look, the chickens here are the ones that lay the golden eggs, ”commented the former politician with his usual grace in a short video posted on Facebook.
At the end of last year, for his part, The Cuban official press admitted that a carton of eggs cost more than 1,200 pesos.
