People who hadn't seen meat for months went crazy, and at the same time, the television stations were reporting on it.
Those who previously mocked the New Territories farms have now fallen silent, and some have even secretly gone to the farm's contracted market to buy chicken.
After all, meat supplies in Hong Kong have been cut off for more than a month, and people now have such a strong urge to eat meat that they look like zombies.
Lin Zhiyuan sets up a stall at the vegetable market and sells more than 10,000 chickens and ducks in a single day.
Due to the limitations of slaughter efficiency, only a little over 500 piglets were sold per day, but compared to a broiler chicken, a piglet is still quite large.
All the meat prepared by the farm is currently only supplied to the Hong Kong wet market. Because the inland market is so vast, the price cannot be raised no matter what.
In addition, the mainland is currently in a tense relocation period, so the government is intentionally controlling this aspect. Although businesses want to raise chicken prices, due to the government's fierce crackdown, the mainland market is indeed thriving despite the impact of Hong Kong and bird flu, and there is no intention to close meat processing plants.
Longteng's chicken farm instantly became the best-selling chicken farm in Hong Kong. Because it has government quarantine qualifications as a guarantee, residents can buy chicken from the farm with confidence.
However, Chen Dong was very particular about setting the price of chicken this time. He had the farm produce a list of residents to buy, and each person could only buy one chicken at a time, and one chicken per day, but only within three days.
This policy, to some extent, ensures that everyone has the opportunity to buy healthy chicken.
Taking advantage of a crisis has always been Chen Dong's business strategy in the outside world. However, he is very generous when dealing with his own people. He did not make a big fuss about prices, but instead maintained the chicken price before the crisis broke out.
Before Longteng Farm released its chicken and pork to the market, public anger had already arisen in Hong Kong, accompanied by small-scale demonstrations. However, Chen Dong's farm acted like timely rain, extinguishing the anger of the demonstrators.
Now everyone has stopped mentioning the protests and is only focused on queuing up to buy chicken.
Because the farm has a daily limit on the number of chickens it sells, many people still can't get a chicken even after queuing for a long time.
All the employees and leaders at the farm are from Longteng. Even wealthy people in Hong Kong who want to pull strings can't find anyone with connections to rely on.
After receiving several calls from bigwigs, Chen Dong finally sighed.
Afang asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Dong replied, "We've managed to keep our overseas sourcing channels for mutton. This time, our cooperation with Xinbaihui Company was truly a close call."
After overcoming numerous difficulties, Longteng Breeding Farm has ushered in a pre-sale boom.
The price of dressed chicken has been raised to HK$17 this month by Dragonair, basically maintaining the level before the crisis.
However, because only Longteng and a few small farms are selling chicken products on the market, chicken products are still in short supply.
As Chen Dong was getting ready to leave work that evening, he received a call from Guo Bingxiang.
"The New Territories farm belongs to Lung Teng?" Kwok Ping-cheung didn't mince words with Chen Dong and went straight to the point: "Could you leave me a few chickens?"
Chen Dong was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized, "Does Young Master Guo really have trouble finding chicken to eat?"
Guo Bingxiang said somewhat impatiently, "For overseas meat to enter the Hong Kong market, it must undergo strict quarantine procedures, but the number of farms in Hong Kong that have obtained quarantine qualifications is very small."
“Yesterday my assistant said that Long Teng opened a breeding farm in the New Territories, and the sales are quite considerable. Moreover, it has a quarantine certificate signed and stamped by the government.”
"To be honest, I've used all my connections but still can't buy any chicken. You know that. I just really crave it."
At this point, Chen Dong realized that the farm's model was to directly contract with the vegetable market for sales, leaving no channels for distributors to sell through offline stores, so naturally even if you had money, you couldn't buy it.
Chen Dong nodded solemnly, "Understood."
"I'll set aside ten fresh dressed chickens for you right away."
"However, we need to agree on the price. These are special times. It's not easy to raise a chicken on a farm, and it's even more difficult to keep the chicken healthy."
Upon hearing this, Chen Dong fell silent on the other end of the phone. He had only asked Chen Dong for a few chickens, intending for him to give them to him anyway. After all, with a company as big as Longteng, he had never imagined that Chen Dong would ask him for money.
"Sure, how much?" Guo Bingxiang asked jokingly.
“Ten million, in US dollars,” Chen Dong said earnestly.
"Are you trying to rob me? $10 million for a chicken?" Guo Bingxiang couldn't believe it. "What were you thinking?"
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