subject: Taiyuan: Low Price Of Pig Meat Prices Hurt Farmers Must Prevent Any Harm, "retaliatory" Rally [print this page] Live pig market prices continued to decline, consumers will benefit from an early run, but if the price of meat also remained in the bottom edge of the enthusiasm is bound to hurt farmers. If the loss increases, farmers may have to exit the industry, this will lead to a substantial decline in the market supply of live pigs, meat prices are certainly easy to "roller coaster" effect caused by "retaliatory" rally.
2010 New Year's Day, after the province of Taiyuan and even turned down the market price of live pigs, and then New Year on the live pig market has not produced significant positive effects. After the Spring Festival, hog prices continued to trend down years ago. 3 At the end of the price 4.8 yuan Taiyuan pig / 500 grams, the price of corn 0.85 yuan / 500 grams, pig grain price ratio is 5.6:1, 6:1 below the breakeven point. This can reflect the cost of earnings data pig that pig farmers have been at a loss.
Pig market down why? What will cause serious consequences? What is the trend predicted late show? April 8, National Bureau of Taiyuan, the team leaders Huo Xiaoyong said in an interview, how to stabilize the pig market, stabilizing the livestock market and the overall price level is urgent.
Raise a pig farmers 20 yuan loss
It is located in Taiyuan canopy Yangqu County Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (Taiyuan fields and Food Group Co., Ltd. under the breeding Co., Ltd., is the focus of Taiyuan Shangmao Wei determine pig breeding base) Chief Engineer Wong, head of production introduction, if farmers raise a pig to Counting economic accounts, to calculate the cost of investment, income and profit of three parts.
According to him, to Taiyuan around, for example, the average price of piglets is about 200 yuan, the raising of a pig Feed Total consumption to about 300 kilograms, according to 0.55 yuan per kg of mixed feed calculations, feed consumption to 660 yuan, about to 45 per employee costs, costs of prevention and treatment takes 50 yuan, 5 yuan on average utilities, depreciation and other sheds loss to 20 yuan, total investment cost was 980 yuan. According to the company
Sell Head of High-manager briefing, the end of the year 3, Taiyuan around the average price of live pigs for sale at 9.6 yuan per kg, 100 kg of slaughter pigs per head basis, slaughter a pig the average income of 960 yuan.
High manager said as he calculated, slaughter a pig minus the total cost of 980 yuan income of 960 yuan, or loss of 20 yuan per head of live pigs.
Pig market "economic crisis"
New Year and has been producing counties in the months of Taiyuan several pig studies 3 months Taiyuan National Bureau of Statistics survey team captain Huo Xiaoyong, combined with the investigation of the cause of Taiyuan hog prices continued to decline throughout the province and even the main reasons.
"The current situation is that the excess production of live pigs and pork consumption growth relative shortage of space, which like the pig market, the outbreak of the 'economic crisis'." According to Huo Xiaoyong introduction, the current market for live pigs, the pigs on the one hand high slaughter volume filling the market, but also complicated sow breeding stock maintained at a high level, increased pig breeding stock. Taiyuan livestock survey data show that the end of the first quarter of 2010, pig herds are 177,100, of which 22,400 can be complicated sows, sows can be complicated to maintain the 12.62% share of the higher level, resulting in the amount pig slaughter increased steadily. A quarter of 51 600 slaughter pigs, 12.3% higher than the same period last year, pork output of 4,185,900 tons, up 5.2%. Can be said that the current supply of adequate, sustained increase in pork supply.
The other hand, the city reduced pork consumption for growth, "market supply and demand determine price trends, increased supply of live pigs, pork consumption fell, leading to low hog prices, Revisited."
More concern is that consumer psychology is the impact of meat consumption is now an important factor.
Taiyuan: Low Price Of Pig Meat Prices Hurt Farmers Must Prevent Any Harm, "retaliatory" Rally
