T&T’s poul­try farm­ers are nav­i­gat­ing a pe­ri­od of pro­duc­tion chal­lenges, wa­ter con­cerns and ris­ing op­er­at­ing costs that are putting pres­sure on the coun­try’s sup­ply of eggs and chick­ens, with con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed that re­duced avail­abil­i­ty could lead to high­er prices of the coun­try’s favourite pro­tein.

On Wednes­day, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries is­sued a news re­lease out­lin­ing that “the cur­rent tight­en­ing of poul­try sup­ply is be­ing in­clu­enced by a com­bi­na­tion of fac­tors,” in­clud­ing “ex­cep­tion­al­ly hot con­di­tions” among the con­sid­er­a­tions.

While some poul­try farm­ers are re­port­ing sig­nif­i­cant heat ef­fects on their op­er­a­tions, the lat­est da­ta from the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vices Di­vi­sion in­di­cate that “the month­ly av­er­age tem­per­a­tures­for 2026 are gen­er­al­ly close to the long-term av­er­age.”