UNITED KINGDOM supermarkets are accused of fueling the chaos of the country’s egg supply chain by refusing to pay farmers a ‘fair price’ to provide eggs. Egg farmer Ioan Humphreys pointed to the deterioration within the business. Humphreys reacted to chain grocery stores for selecting to import eggs from Italy in preference to paying British farmers extra. in line with Mail’s record, the footage of empty shelves in supermarkets across the UNITED KINGDOM, together with at Tesco, Lidl and Aldi, display the chaos within the egg industry. Wetherspoons equipped breakfast substitutes as a result of egg shortages, even as a well-liked egg-based bakery in Norwich warned that disruption to its supply chain was once ‘catastrophic’. The egg producer in query said, “Not because we as farmers don’t need to produce eggs, but as a result of we won’t manage to pay for to supply eggs. All we would like is an even value to hide our prices and keep generating English eggs.” he said. “We warned 10 months ago that producers may stop manufacturing if they weren’t paid a good value for his or her products, and the knock-on effect would lead to fewer chickens and fewer eggs,” the British Loose Field Egg Producers Affiliation said. The British Egg Business Council brought that they weren’t acutely aware of any shortages, however delivered that “there may be fluctuations in supply and insist and availability is quite tight at the moment”.