Farm-gate prices are near ₹7 and retail ₹8.50–9. Feed costs are up 25% in four months as maize is pulled towards ethanol, even as bird flu and heat thin flocks.

An egg that was selling for ₹6 in the retail market before the monsoon has already touched ₹7, said chairman of Progressive Poultry Farmers Association, Punjab, Mohinder Arora

Farm-gate prices are near ₹7 and retail ₹8.50–9. Feed costs are up 25% in four months as maize is pulled towards ethanol, even as bird flu and heat thin flocks.