Pig prices rise 60% a year. Pig farmers are afraid to enter the market at a loss.

The retail price of pork in some markets has reached the highest level in recent years.

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The retail price of pork in Haizhu market has reached the highest level in recent years. The reporter visited many markets in Guangzhou yesterday and found that the wholesale price of live pigs in Guangzhou has increased by nearly 60% compared with that of a year ago, resulting in a rise in meat prices in many meat markets, with ribs, lean meat and other meat rising by 1 yuan per jin.

Pork price

Farmers should be happy with the rise in meat prices. However, it is strange that the reporter visited the farm and found that even if the price of live pigs is so good, some pig farmers are not happy because the output does not reach a certain scale, and there are pig farmers who were afraid of losses last year who did not dare to expand production on a large scale. they worry that taking advantage of high purchases will repeat the tragedy of "killing pigs at low prices" in 2008.

Haizhu Market:

The retail price of pork has reached its highest level in recent years.

Recently, the reporter visited the market and found that meat prices in some markets in Guangzhou rose quietly. Yesterday, in the Haizhu market, the largest market in the urban area, the reporter saw that the price of lean meat was 15 yuan / jin, the price of meat was 13 yuan / jin, and the price of ribs was 16 yuan / jin. Manager Deng, who is in charge of the market, told reporters that pork prices began to rise last week, rising by 1 yuan per jin. "it is mainly because the purchase price has risen sharply, and now the purchase price of hairy pigs is 9 yuan per jin." According to reports, the retail price of pork in this market has reached the highest level in recent years.

A meat stall owner told reporters: "the price increase is also a last resort, a price increase sales will certainly be affected." But if we don't raise the price, we will lose money, and we can only increase as little as possible. " Miss Chen, a citizen who is buying pork, said: "it is acceptable to have an increase of 1 yuan per catty. If the price goes up again, we should consider buying less." Aunt Xu told the reporter: "during this period of time, the price of vegetables has become cheaper, but it is the turn of pork to rise." Although you only spend two or three more yuan a day, you have to buy lean pork chops every day, and you have to spend an extra 70 or 80 yuan a month. "

On the other hand, some citizens said that they could not afford pork and ate chicken instead. The reporter saw that the cheap feathered chicken in the Haizhu market was only 670 yuan / jin.

Yesterday, the price basket quotation of Guangzhou Price Bureau Price Monitoring Center is: lean meat 32 yuan / kg, skin meat 26.7 yuan / kg, ribs 38.5 yuan / kg. This price is significantly higher than last week. In mid-May last year, the prices of lean meat, skin meat and ribs in Guangzhou were 27.54 yuan, 22.69 yuan and 32.26 yuan respectively, and the prices have all risen by more than 10% this year.

Wholesale Market:

The supply of live pigs is reduced at one price a day.

It is true that the retail price of pork has risen, but the increase is negligible compared with the wholesale price. The reporter came to Tianhe Livestock Wholesale Market yesterday to see that the price of live pigs has soared to 8.2 yuan / jin. He Ziqing, the owner of stalls 21 and 22, told reporters, "8.2 yuan is the average price, the price of a pig is even more expensive, 8.4 yuan per jin, and the price of live pigs is one price a day. Since January, pig prices have risen month by month and have now reached this year's all-time high."

The reporter read the Guangzhou Price Information Network and learned that in the Jinrong livestock trading wholesale market, the average price of lean pigs of improved breeds soared to 8.20 yuan / jin yesterday, while on May 18 a year ago, the average wholesale price of the same type of pigs was only 5.15 yuan / jin, an increase of nearly 60%. According to the national agricultural and sideline products and agricultural materials price market system monitoring last week, the national average pork price has risen 43.5% compared with the same period last year, close to 16 yuan / kg.

The price is so high, but the supply has not come up. He Ziqing said: "the recent daily trading volume of pigs in Tianhe Livestock Wholesale Market is about 3500, the normal level is 4000, and the peak is 5000, so the current market trading volume is on the low side. Now it is not that the price is high and nobody wants it, but that supply falls short of demand! "

However, the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Economic and Trade Commission told this newspaper yesterday that at present, the average daily listing volume of the three major pig wholesale markets in Guangzhou is about 10,000, which can meet the current demand in Guangzhou.

Pig farmers' troubles:

It is more and more difficult to raise pigs and dare not expand production on a large scale.

"at this time last year, pork prices were shockingly low. at that time, the price of live pigs was more than 5 yuan per catty, but the feed did not fall, which made it difficult for many farmers. Some farmers had a loss of 200,000,300 yuan per pig. Many pig farmers who are afraid are willing to starve their pigs to death, rather than spend money to repay the loss." He Ziqing said. In the course of a year, the price has greatly reversed. However, in the face of such a good price, many pig farmers can not laugh.