Chicken, in most households, it's what's for dinner, or at least for lunch. Indeed Belize is one of the top consumers of chicken meat in the Western hemisphere.
And that's why it's of concern that chicken could be getting scarce and the price per pound going up.
The last time we reported on chicken prices, they were way, way down. That was at the start of the COVID quarantine, when the chicken companies were literally giving it way. But, now that consumption patterns are returning to normal, prices could be going up, due to scarcity.
It's based on projections - what might be called chicken futures and I found out more from the Manager of the Belize Poultry Association who I spoke with via Zoom:
According to the Belize Poultry Association, each Belizean eats approximately 109 pounds of chicken meat annually.
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