China News Service, Beijing, February 22 (Reporter Chen Su) Since 2019, pork price fluctuations in China have become a social hot spot, and pork prices have seen a wave of upward trends around the Spring Festival this year.
When will pork prices return to "civilian prices"?
When can Chinese residents eat cheap pork?
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China responded to this on the 22nd.
Data map: Consumers are buying pork in a supermarket in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Yun
At the press conference of the State Council Information Office held that day, Tang Renjian, director of the Central Agricultural Office and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that since last year, China has taken a number of measures to support the restoration of pig production capacity and stabilize pig production and market supply. By the end of 2020, pigs The stock has recovered to more than 92% of the normal year. Although the price has risen around the Spring Festival, the increase has not been as large as in the previous period. As the newly added live pig production capacity has been realized as pork production, the most tight period of pork market supply has passed. The relationship between supply and demand will become more relaxed in the later period.
Tang Renjian said that in the first quarter of this year, that is, around March, the production capacity of live pigs will increase by about 40% over the same period of the previous year. By around June, the live pig stocks can be restored to the normal level of 2017.
In the second half of this year, slaughter of pigs and pork supply will gradually return to normal annual levels.
The 2021 Central Document No. 1 issued on the 21st paid close attention to the issue of pork supply, determined the stable development of the pig industry as the target task of the “three rural” work in 2021, proposed to accelerate the construction of a modern breeding system, protect the basic production capacity of pigs, and improve pigs Long-term mechanism for stable and orderly development of the industry.
Tang Renjian said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will focus on the current recovery of production capacity, while also focusing on long-term stable production, closely monitoring production development trends, and studying specific methods to stabilize and reserve pig production capacity to ensure the stable development of the pig industry.
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