It reached 398,000 tons in April, the month with the most imports. From mid-February to mid-May, pork prices across the country fell for three consecutive months.
Since June, with the stable control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the production and living order of the people has gradually recovered, and pork consumption has increased significantly, driving pork prices to rise slightly, but still obvious Below the level in mid-February. In the first week of June, the national pork market average selling price of pork was 46.28 yuan per kilogram, down 13.36 yuan from the high point in mid-February; the year-on-year increase was 84.2%, which was 80.6 percentage points lower than in late February.
“The next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will continue to insist on the recovery of hog production and the prevention and control of African swine fever to consolidate the good momentum of capacity recovery.” Yang Zhenhai said that the main future To do a good job in several aspects: On the basis of sending 11 working groups to 22 provinces for investigation and supervision in the early stage, the United Nations Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other 8 departments carried out pig stabilization and production supply guarantee work and related policy implementation inspections. Promote and supervise the slow recovery provinces. Do a good job in the construction of new and expanded pig farms, and promote the project to be completed as soon as possible to achieve production. Continue to promote the poverty alleviation project of leading enterprises with 10,000 households in the pig industry, and drive small and medium-sized farms to supplement and increase their nutrition. Do a good job of normalizing prevention and control of African swine fever, organize the implementation of the “Guidelines for the Strengthening of African Swine Fever Prevention and Control Measures” and “Emergency Implementation Plan for African Swine Fever Epidemic (Second Edition 2020)”, optimize the epidemic investigation and prevention measures, and carry out live pigs The 100-day action of special rectification of illegal transportation was resolutely prevented from rebounding, and efforts were made to maintain a good momentum of capacity recovery.
(Originally titled “May pig production continues to resume and pork supply and demand increase simultaneously”)