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The ovum procurement terms successful Namakkal, which reached an all-time precocious of ₹6.40 per ovum past month, is present reduced to ₹5 per egg.
Namakkal, popularly known arsenic Egg Town, houses much than 1,600 poultry farms and astir six crore to 7 crore eggs are produced per day. These eggs are sent to assorted parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and different North Indian States. Likewise, eggs are sent to the noon-meal strategy to authorities and aided schools. Eggs are besides exported to Muscat, Dubai, Qatar, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates.
Based connected the request and production, the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), Namakkal portion fixes the terms of the eggs connected a regular basis. The highest procurement price until November 2025 was ₹5.90, station which, the terms surpassed and touched ₹6.40 connected December 22 which continued till January 3, 2026. In retail, the ovum terms touched betwixt ₹7 and ₹7.50. From January, the procurement terms started to trim and connected January 19 (Monday), the terms was reduced to ₹5.
The Tamil Nadu Poultry Farmers Association president and Namakkal portion NECC president K. Singaraj said that ovum depletion successful North Indian states person reduced pursuing winter. Likewise, owed to the Pongal festival, the ovum question was affected successful Tamil Nadu and eggs started to stagnate, which resulted successful the terms reduction, Mr. Singaraj added.
