Abstract:
The study aims to investigate how the COVID/19 pandemic has impacted the price of
chicken and chicken products. The current study was conducted using secondary data
collected from a relevant online database of poultry news portals. Data from one year
were collected of which six months were from the pre-COVID period (JulyDecember/2019)
and six months from the COVID period (July-December/2020). A
structural questionnaire was prepared to collect the market price of chicken and
chicken products from eight divisions of Bangladesh. To collect the data 4 days of the
month were considered randomly taking a day from each week. Total (4 days x 6
months x 8 divisions) 192 days of data were collected taking 48 days each from preCOVID
and
COVID
periods.
Therefore,
the
plan
was
to
collect
a
total
of
(192x2)
384
days
of
data
for
the
study.
The
results
showed
that
the
average
wholesale
price
of
live
birds
(Broiler chicken, culled white chicken and Sonali chicken), Shell eggs (Brown
and White) and Day-Old-Chicks (Brown, White layer and Broiler chicks) fluctuated
due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but no significant (p>0.05) difference was found in
prices except live culled red chicken. The average wholesale price of culled red
chicken in Chattogram was 171.12±19.67 from July to December 2019 and
195.34±35.70 from July to December 2020. In Khulna and Rajshahi the wholesale
price of brown shell eggs decreased whereas in Dhaka, Barishal and Chattogram the
price was upward, but it remained unchanged in Mymensingh, Sylhet and Rangpur
during the COVID pandemic. The wholesale price of white shell eggs in Dhaka,
Khulna and Rajshahi showed decreasing trend during the pandemic but increased in
Chattogram. The wholesale price of white layer chicks was lowered by 21.43Tk,
23.79Tk and 31.03Tk in the COVID period than the pre-COVID period in Dhaka,
Barishal and Rangpur, whereas minor price fluctuation was observed in brown layer
and broiler chicks. The wholesale price of Sonali chicks was 15.67±3.50 in Rangpur
during the pandemic. The study concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic had a
negative impact on the poultry industry.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Poultry Science
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN POULTRY SCIENCE
SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER/2021
