Chinanews client, Beijing, July 26 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) Since the beginning of this year, the "Second Brothers" have been on the slide, and the price has been going down. There have been many places where there have been pork less than 10 yuan a catty, and beef and mutton have also been continuously reduced in price.
The prices of pigs, cattle and sheep have been reduced collectively. Will the prices of restaurants, canteens, take-out meat dishes, steamed buns sold at roadside stalls, and ham sausages in supermarkets be reduced?
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Data map: Shaanxi Roujiamo.
Photo by Cheng Jingwei
Pork prices have been
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halved" from historical highs
"Since February, the price of live pigs has fallen for five consecutive months. At the end of June, the retail price of pork in the national bazaar was 24.6 yuan per kilogram, which is more than half of the historical high price of 59.64 yuan in February 2020." Agriculture Xin Guochang, the second-level inspector of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Rural Affairs, said at the press conference of the State Council Information Office on the 20th.
To ensure supply and stable prices, the state has recently started the purchase and storage of pork reserves.
According to Wan Jinsong, a spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission, “On July 7 and July 14, two batches of central reserve purchasing and storage have been completed, and the third batch of central reserve purchasing and storage will be organized on July 21. At present, the price of live pigs The excessive decline has been initially curbed. Since the end of June, the price has rebounded significantly. The current price has rebounded by more than 15% from the previous low."
Supported by the national purchasing and storage policy, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Market Price Information System" monitoring shows that since the end of June, pork has rebounded for two consecutive weeks.
However, in the latest week (July 9-July 16), the average pork price was 22.51 yuan/kg, a 0.9% drop from the previous month, and it fell again.
On the retail side, a reporter from Chinanews.com found that pork prices in some supermarkets have not changed significantly recently.
In a supermarket in Xicheng District, Beijing, the price of pork front and back is 14.8 yuan/kg, and the price of pork belly is 20.8 yuan/kg, which is the same as the price at the end of June.
The price of pork in a supermarket in Xicheng District, Beijing.
Photo by Xie Yiguan, a reporter from China News Service
“Now pure lean meat is 15 yuan a catty, loin is 16 yuan, and pork belly is 17 yuan, which is about the same as the previous period. Like this kind of fat and thin meat, now it sells 13 yuan per catty, which is a bit cheaper than the previous 14 yuan.” Beijing A butcher at a vegetable market in Xicheng District told reporters.
Beef and mutton prices have fallen for several consecutive weeks
Not only the price of pork has fallen, but the prices of alternative beef and lamb have fallen.
According to the monitoring of the country’s 500 county fairs and collection points by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in the second week of July, the national average price of beef was 84.93 yuan/kg, which was the same as the previous week. It had fallen for 20 consecutive weeks, with a decrease of 5.35% during the period. ; The national average price of mutton is 82.56 yuan/kg, a decrease of 0.2% from the previous week. It has been down for 9 consecutive weeks from the previous week, with a decrease of 3.34% during the period.
"The beef used for stewing is 42 yuan per catty, and the mutton is 46 yuan per catty. Lamb is a few dollars cheaper than the previous period. Beef has not been very cheap recently." A vendor in a vegetable market in Xicheng District, Beijing, said.
A staff member of a beef and mutton shop in Xicheng District, Beijing also told reporters, "Beef 40 yuan a catty, mutton 44 yuan a catty, the price has dropped a little, but not much, the high price of beef and mutton was a year ago. "
The picture shows the lamb slices in the supermarket.
Photo by Xie Yiguan, a reporter from China News Service
“The significant increase in pork production in the first half of the year led to a large drop in pork prices. As pork accounts for a large proportion and the meat supply situation has improved, the prices of cattle, mutton and poultry are going down.” Gao Gao, Vice President of the China Meat Association Guan told a reporter from Chinanews.com, "Imported meat increased by 7% in the first half of the year, which further promoted the decline in meat prices."
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the pork production in the first half of the year was 27.15 million tons, an increase of 35.9% year-on-year; the production of beef, mutton and poultry increased by 5.7% year-on-year.
The price of meat has dropped, but why don't the meat dumplings, dumplings, and sausages drop?
When pork prices are rising, many businesses have increased the prices of pork-related products in order to relieve cost pressures.
Today, the price of pork has fallen sharply, the price of beef and mutton is also falling, but the price of pork products has remained high, causing many netizens to complain.
"The price of pork has really dropped, but the price of Roujiamo can't come down." "The price of pork has dropped, and the price of food in the cafeteria has not dropped." "Once many things go up, it will be too difficult to drop again."
The reporter asked a number of restaurants in Beijing about this, and a staff member of a chain restaurant said, “The price of the meat folder in the store has always been this price, because the company’s unified pricing, so it will not be adjusted based on changes in pork prices.”
Data map: Long Chaoshou.
Photo courtesy of Chengdu Bureau of Commerce
"The price of dumplings with pork in the store has not been reduced this year. When the price of pork has risen, the price of dumplings has not risen, but there have been discounts on the takeaway platform." said a clerk at a dumpling shop in Haidian District, Beijing.
However, some restaurants have lowered their product prices due to the fall in pork prices.
A restaurant that mainly sells Roujiamo said, “Because the shop is mostly patronized by regular customers, the price of Roujiamo has been lowered a bit and the quantity has increased since the price of pork has plummeted.”
“The price of pork-related cooked food in the store has been lowered, probably more than a month ago.” A staff member of a delicatessen also told reporters, “It is not clear how much of the reduction is, but there is a one or two yuan reduction per catty. of."
As for the price of pork products such as sausages, Shuanghui Development recently stated in response to investors’ questions that the drop in pig prices will help the slaughter industry and lower the cost of meat products.
The price of fresh products will follow the market, and the price of packaged meat products is relatively stable.
Previously, Shuanghui Development had stated that the price of the product would be determined based on factors such as product cost, product quality and market conditions.
"In terms of pricing strategies for food companies, some are based on cost, and some are based on demand." Huang Zihang, an analyst at Kaiyuan Securities, pointed out that the decline in raw material prices does not necessarily lead to lower prices of finished products.
Of course, if pork prices remain stable, it will be beneficial to downstream industries.
After the price of pork fell, have the prices of the Roujiamo you bought, the restaurants you eat often, and the meat dishes you take out have dropped?
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