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Transcript
00:00The price of chicken and eggs in some families in Metro Manila has increased.
00:04Before we check the price, let's add to cart and drive to Manila.
00:08We have first news from Bea Pinlac. Bea.
00:16Igan, if your family's budget in the market is P500,
00:20maybe that's half of a kilo of chicken.
00:23According to the Department of Agriculture,
00:25the price of chicken is now P250 per kilo.
00:30In addition to chicken and eggs, the price is also increasing.
00:37What's first, eggs or chicken?
00:40When it comes to increasing the price,
00:42the price of chicken and eggs in some families is increasing.
00:47Mommy Milling, Edgar,
00:49the weight in the pocket is almost P300
00:52that he paid for more than a kilo of chicken.
00:55That's not enough for his family to eat today.
00:59You need to be practical.
01:01Sometimes, he just saves.
01:04Nothing, it's increasing.
01:06In the monitoring of the Department of Agriculture,
01:09the price of chicken per kilo reached P250
01:13in some families in Metro Manila.
01:15The price of eggs also increased
01:19from P8 to P9 per piece of medium-sized egg.
01:24In Trabajo Market in Manila,
01:26the price of whole chicken reached P210
01:30and P220 for choice cuts.
01:33The price per piece of medium-sized egg
01:36is slowly increasing,
01:38but it's still within P8 today.
01:41According to some egg and chicken sellers,
01:44they can't lower the price
01:46because they will lose money.
01:49We only sell to vendors.
01:52Sometimes, it's P200,
01:54and we don't grow anything yet.
01:56Sometimes, when it's noon,
01:58they give us less.
02:00We only sell a little
02:02so that we don't lose money.
02:04If you sell a lot,
02:06the price will go down.
02:08It's tiring to sell.
02:11If the price goes down,
02:13it's tiring to sell.
02:15Sometimes,
02:17we don't even have enough money
02:19to pay the rent.
02:21We have to pay a lot of money.
02:23The production is weak.
02:25It's hard because
02:27there are only a few eggs.
02:29Sometimes, it breaks.
02:31We can't lower the price.
02:33We can't lower the price.
02:35In Karinderia in Manila,
02:37there are no chicken dishes
02:39in the market.
02:41But they can't remove the eggs
02:43from what they sell
02:45especially the breakfast
02:47that their customers are looking for.
02:49No, we can't.
02:51He's the one who buys it.
02:53We don't sell chicken anymore.
02:55We can't raise the price
02:57because the customers can't buy it.
02:59We only earn less.
03:05Igan, some of our viewers
03:07are thinking of new discounts.
03:09How will they be able to budget?
03:11Now that almost everything
03:13in the market is raising the price.
03:15That's the first news from Manila.
03:17Bea Pinlac for GMA Integrated News.

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