What if it was the star product of these 2022 year-end parties? In fact, oysters are doing well in trade compared to foie gras and other traditional products, whose prices have skyrocketed.
“The 2022 vintage is not bad, I don’t know if we are really taking advantage of the price rise of our foie gras colleagues, but we have established sales more or less like last year (…) Marennes-Oléron sells between 19 and 20,000 tons oysters per year,” said Laurent Chiron, president of the PGI movement for oysters in Marennes-Oléron, in an interview on Good Evening Business.
However, oyster production has fallen by 10-15% this year, but less than other foods.
“Production was lower, especially for the large calibres, number 2 and number 1, but as for number 3 and number 4, we don’t have any problems, so we were able to supply the market since oysters are the most popular. consume in the market. It’s number 3.”
But, what increase in the price of oysters linked to this inflation in production costs?
“It takes 3 and a half years to produce an oyster (…), we are trying to reduce costs, but a price increase could not be missing (…), even if it increases by 15%, prices return to the same between 2010 and 2012” , stresses Laurent Chiron, for whom “the oyster remains an affordable product”.
Source: BFM TV
