After Egg Prices Plunge, Ministry of Agriculture Urges MBG to Include More Egg Menus
Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - The Ministry of Agriculture is encouraging the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme to include more egg menus amid the plunge in chicken egg prices at the farm level. This step is seen as a way to absorb production while maintaining price stability for farmers.
Director General of Livestock and Animal Health at the Ministry of Agriculture, Agung Suganda, said the proposal was discussed in a meeting with business actors, associations, and farmer cooperatives earlier today.
“Of course, the meeting touched on issues of availability and so on, including our push for the free nutritious meals (MBG) programme to increase the weekly egg menu, and we also request that the egg purchase price follows the price set by the National Food Agency Regulation, namely Rp26,500 per kg,” Agung said when met after the meeting at his office in Jakarta on Tuesday (12/5/2026).
He explained that the government is currently working to maintain the stability of chicken egg prices, which have recently fallen below the Reference Purchase Price (HAP) at the producer or on-farm level, as set by the government.
According to Agung, the involvement of the Nutritional Fulfilment Service Unit (SPPG) in the MBG programme is expected to become one of the instruments for absorbing eggs from smallholder farmers.
“So, we certainly agreed earlier to maintain this stability so that the unity among the actors, through associations and cooperatives, must be maintained, including through the existing SPPGs, which should form price stabilisation,” he said.
Agung stated that the government has also consolidated with various parties and will continue discussions in more detail to maintain egg prices at the farm level.
“We already consolidated earlier, and next, of course, this meeting will be followed by more focused meetings,” he added.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Agriculture is requesting that egg prices at the farm level soon return to approaching the Reference Purchase Price (HAP) set by the government, namely Rp26,500 per kg.
“But once again, we request that tomorrow the on-farm price matches the HAP of Rp26,500 per kg, because the price at the consumer level has not dropped significantly either, so the consumer price is still relatively stable,” Agung said.
He emphasised that the main issue currently is at the farm level, while egg prices for consumers have not experienced a significant decline.
“The on-farm price is what we certainly need to boost towards the reference price set by the government, and it should not affect the consumer price,” he concluded.