The price of eggs from To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly-man­aged farms in To­ba­go has more than dou­bled.

The Di­vi­sion of Food Se­cu­ri­ty yes­ter­day an­nounced an in­crease from $7 per dozen to $15 per dozen, ef­fec­tive March 2. The av­er­age price for a dozen eggs in a su­per­mar­ket is $30.

The di­vi­sion said the price of eggs and oth­er pro­duce at its farms had re­mained un­changed since 2005. It said the ad­just­ment was caused by a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in pro­duc­tion costs, in­clud­ing feed and oth­er es­sen­tial farm in­puts, and now aligns with the cur­rent mar­ket prices.