Today Egg Rate (Live NECC Egg Price)

The national egg rate today runs from ₹5.25 per piece in Hospet to ₹6.55 in Kolkata (WB). There is no single all-India price, NECC publishes a separate suggested rate for each declared market, and the spread between the cheapest and dearest is usually ₹1 to ₹1.50 per egg. The full market-by-market board is in the table above.

NECC’s suggested rate today is ₹5.25 at the lowest market and ₹6.55 at the highest. NECC gathers price information from farmers, traders and zonal representatives across roughly 50 declared markets and publishes a reference figure each midnight. It is guidance, not a fixed price, actual trade happens either side of it depending on how much stock arrived and how many buyers turned up.

A tray of 30 eggs costs ₹157.5 at today’s wholesale rate. That is the mandi price, what a trader pays buying in bulk. In a retail shop the same tray will usually cost ₹30 to ₹45 more, because the shop carries freight, breakage of two to four percent, and its own margin. Supermarket packs work out higher again, since you are also paying for grading and cartoning.

The standard tray holds 30 eggs and costs ₹157.5 wholesale today. Tray is the unit most households and small shops buy in. Larger buyers work in petis instead, which is seven trays. If you are buying a tray from a retail shop rather than a mandi, expect to pay above the figure shown here.

A peti costs ₹1103 today. A peti is the standard wholesale carton in the Indian egg trade, seven trays of 30, so 210 eggs. It is the unit traders quote in, and anyone supplying a shop, hotel, canteen or bakery buys this way. Retail buyers rarely encounter it.

One hundred eggs cost ₹525 at today’s wholesale rate. Traders do not usually sell in hundreds — they sell in trays of 30 or petis of 210, so the hundred-egg figure is a conversion for comparison rather than a unit you can walk in and buy. For reference, 12 eggs work out to ₹63 and 24 to ₹126.00.

Hospet has the lowest rate today at ₹5.25 per egg. The cheapest markets are almost always the producing belts themselves — Barwala, Ajmer, Ludhiana and Namakkal — because there is no freight between the farm and the mandi. If you buy in bulk and sit near one of these, the saving is real. If you do not, transport will usually cancel it out.

Kolkata (WB) is highest today at ₹6.55 per egg. The dearest markets are the ones furthest from a producing belt, with Mumbai and the southern metros usually near the top. Every kilometre between farm and market adds freight and breakage allowance to the price, which is where most of the ₹1 to ₹1.50 national spread comes from.

Barwala is at ₹5.52 per egg today. Barwala is Haryana’s main layer cluster and one of the most important price-setting markets in northern India, Delhi, Punjab and much of the northern corridor take their reference from it. Because it is a producing belt rather than a consuming city, it usually sits near the bottom of the national board. See the full Barwala egg rate page for daily updates.

Namakkal is at ₹5.40 per egg today. Namakkal in Tamil Nadu is India’s single largest egg-producing district and the reference market for the entire south, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi and most of Kerala are supplied from here. When Namakkal moves, southern rates follow within a day or two. See the full Namakkal egg rate page.

Delhi is at ₹6.00 per egg today. Delhi is supplied largely from Barwala in Haryana and Ajmer in Rajasthan, both within short freight range, which keeps it among the cheaper metro markets in the country. Delhi rates tend to track Barwala closely with a small transport premium. See the full Delhi egg rate page.

Mumbai is at ₹6.00 per egg today, consistently among the highest in the country. There is no poultry belt near Mumbai, eggs arrive from Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and interior Maharashtra, so every egg carries a long haul and a breakage allowance before it reaches the market. Pune usually trades a few paise below Mumbai for the same reason. See the full Mumbai egg rate page.

Kolkata is at ₹6.55 per egg today. West Bengal has high per-head egg consumption but produces less than it eats, so Kolkata draws heavily on Andhra Pradesh alongside local Bengal farms. That dependence on incoming supply is why Kolkata rates can move sharply when the Andhra belts tighten. See the full Kolkata egg rate page.

Hyderabad is at ₹5.45 per egg today. Hyderabad usually sits in the lower half of the national board because it is close to the Telangana and Andhra producing belts and freight distances are short. Rates here track the Godavari district markets more closely than they track the national average. See the full Hyderabad egg rate page.

The rate on this page is wholesale, what a trader pays at the mandi, buying by the peti of 210. By the time an egg reaches your kirana it has carried freight, handling, breakage loss of two to four percent, and the shopkeeper’s margin. A gap of ₹1 to ₹1.50 per egg is normal. Today’s retail reference is ₹5.88 against a wholesale rate of ₹5.25.

Nearly every year. Demand rises because eggs are widely eaten as a warming food from October onwards, and supply gets more expensive because layer birds burn more feed keeping warm. Both forces push the same direction. The seasonal peak usually falls in December or January, easing from February.

NECC publishes its daily suggested rates around midnight. We pull and publish each morning, so the figures on this page reflect the current day’s NECC reference. On Sundays and NECC holidays, the previous working day’s rate carries forward rather than being re-estimated.

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