# Price of eggs shoots up as 46,000 birds infected with bird flu are destroyed

> Egg prices in Ghana have risen after about 46,000 birds infected with bird flu were destroyed. The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers has asked the government to subsidize poultry feed so farmers can expand production and compete with imported poultry.

- Date: 2021-08-11 · published 2021-08-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Ghana · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45579-price-of-eggs-shoots-up-as-46-000-birds-infected-with-bird-flu-are-destroyed
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Bird flu losses are tightening local egg supply, and feed subsidy requests point to high input costs for poultry producers. The impact on global feed grain prices is small.

## Sources

- gbcghanaonline.com: https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/general/price-of-eggs-shoots-up-as-46000-birds-infected-with-bird-flu-are-destroyed/2021/

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