Shanghai live poultry slaughter resumes in May, prices unchanged and few buyers
Original headline: City resumes live poultry trading
Retail outlets closed one day every two weeks; foot traffic still light, prices have not risen
Yesterday (the 4th), live poultry sales had already resumed at Yunlian Vegetable Market on Changli East Road in Pudong. According to the provisions of the "Shanghai Municipality Live Poultry Trading Management Measures," the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Commission issued an announcement on November 25, 2013, stipulating that starting from 2014, live poultry trading would be suspended citywide every year from the first day of the first lunar month to April 30 of the Gregorian calendar. / Morning Post reporter Yin Liqin
The (Shanghai) Municipal Commission of Commerce said in a recent notice that, in accordance with the provisions of the "Shanghai Municipality Live Poultry Trading Management Measures" and the "Notice on Matters Concerning the Implementation of Seasonal Suspension of Live Poultry Trading in the City in 2016," the city would resume live poultry trading on May 1. At the same time, strict environmental and personal hygiene systems will be enforced at the original designated retail trading points where live poultry trading resumes, and various management systems and contingency measures such as verification and ticket requesting, market closure for disinfection, and information reporting will be implemented. The system of wholesale markets closing one day per week and retail trading points closing one day every two weeks will be strictly enforced, and during the closure period the business premises will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
Yesterday, reporters visited 2 designated live poultry retail trading points in Shanghai and found business at the stalls somewhat quiet. Around noon, the live poultry trading point at Yunlian Vegetable Market on Changli East Road had few customers. The proprietress said business had been average recently, "we only sell about 10 a day." The live poultry trading point at Baode Vegetable Market was set up separately in an area outside the market. The proprietress, surnamed Ding, likewise said business was somewhat quiet, "at best we sell at least 20-odd a day, now it's not even half that, maybe because it's just started and people don't know yet." In the first half of this year, whether vegetable prices or meat prices have risen to some extent, will live chicken prices rise? The proprietress said there had basically been no price increase, "here, two-yellow chicken is 13 yuan per jin, new grass chicken is 18 yuan, and a slightly better old hen is only 25 yuan." (Xie Zeng)
At Yunlian Vegetable Market on Changli East Road in Pudong, live poultry sales have already resumed. / Morning Post reporter Yin Liqin