Jimu news reporter Cao Lei Li Hui
Pork, which fell back to the "15 yuan ordinary price" at the beginning of last month, is now cheaper. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the national pork price in April this year fell by 21.4% year-on-year; at the same time, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' monitoring data on the national bazaar market, in May, the national bazaar pork price was 36.09 yuan per kilogram, which has fallen for 15 consecutive weeks.
In the past few days, Jimu News reporters visited the fresh markets at all levels and the production and breeding chain in Wuhan and learned that the current pig production capacity in the country is sufficient, the price of the column continues to decline, the terminal supply continues to increase, and the citizens are closer to "pork freedom".
Pork prices have fallen for fifteen consecutive weeks
On the morning of May 19, Jimu News reporters came to a vegetable market on Huangxiaohe Road in Hankou, and the pork stalls in the fresh area were purchased from time to time, and the business looked very good.
"Pork is getting cheaper and cheaper, and ribs are only about 20 yuan a catty." Ms. Ding, who bought a long strip of pork belly, told reporters that her family likes to eat tamales, and has recently bought pork belly several times, almost every few days, and can feel that the price of meat is getting cheaper: "The best pork belly bought before the Qingming Festival in April was still 28 yuan a pound, and later became 25 yuan and 22 yuan. Ms. Ding said that buying pork belly during the May Day holiday was less than 20 yuan a catty, and now it has dropped to about 167 yuan a catty.
In this market, pork belly is 13.8 yuan a pound, hind leg meat is 14.8 yuan a pound, pork belly is 16.8 yuan a pound, and the most expensive plum meat is only 18 yuan a pound. Several stall owners said that the price of pork now basically drops a little every week, and thirteen or four yuan per kilogram is the cheapest price in the past three years.
In a farmers' market on Houhu Avenue in Hankou, Jimu News reporters visited three pork shops at the same time, of which pork belly ranged from 14 yuan to 18 yuan per kilogram according to quality, hind leg meat could be bought at a minimum of 12 yuan per kilogram, and ribs ranged from 22 yuan to 25 yuan a kilogram, and if you buy meat at night, you can also be cheaper by 1 to 2 yuan per kilogram.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' monitoring data on the national bazaar market, since May, the price of pork in the national bazaar market has been 18.05 yuan per kilogram, which has fallen for fifteen consecutive weeks, down 29.3% year-on-year, 18.13 yuan cheaper than the highest price in January, and 23.55 yuan lower than the highest price last year.
The hog price fell to the breakeven point
The continuous downward trend of pork prices stems from the abundant market supply brought about by the increase in the number of upstream pigs, and the choice of consumers has become more. Jimu News learned that at present, the pig price in many parts of the country has fallen below the horizontal line of 10 yuan per kilogram, and has almost dropped to the break-even line.
According to the survey data of the National Bureau of Statistics, as of May 17, the output price of foreign three-yuan pigs (foreign fine breed lean pigs) was 9.41 yuan / catty, down 0.04 yuan compared with the 16th, and also continued to maintain a downward trend.
"This year's price reduction trend is obvious, because more and more pigs are put on the market." Yesterday afternoon, when the reporter contacted Master Yu, a farmer of a large-scale pig farm in Huangpi, he had just come out of his own piglet farm: "Now this price is not unexpected, the bottoming effect of the pig cycle is still continuing, and the price is estimated to have just dropped to the break-even line." ”
Master Yu introduced that from after the Spring Festival to before the May Day holiday, farmers have been putting pigs that can be out of the pen into the market, and the supply of pork in the country is very sufficient: "Before pork was expensive, consumers could choose other meat products instead, and now pork is cheaper, but there are not so many people who eat." ”
Jimu News reporters learned from the investigation of a number of farmers that according to the breeding conditions last year, the comprehensive breeding cost price of pigs is around 10 yuan per kilogram, and the price in April can be sold to about 11 yuan, and it has now dropped to the break-even line of about 10 yuan.
Continue to expand production capacity to promote deep processing
The continuous decline in pig production prices and pork retail prices is closely related to the continuous expansion of domestic pig production capacity and the continuous improvement of the industry's deep processing level.
In April 2021, Hubei Province issued the "Opinions on Cultivating and Expanding Leading Enterprises in Agricultural Industrialization", as one of the ten major industrial chains supported by Hubei Province, the pig industry will enhance the development of Hubei pig industry from the links of breeding pigs, feed, slaughter and deep processing.
This is a new positive signal that after the end of the "pig cycle" in the past three years, Hubei Province will promote the high-quality development of the industry from the whole industry chain.
Statistics show that pork products account for more than 60% of the meat foods consumed daily by the public. Such a huge market demand must be met by expanding pig production capacity and improving deep processing capacity.
For the way to accelerate the construction of the whole pig industry chain, animal husbandry expert Yi Jundong believes that efforts should be made in six aspects. Including promoting the integration of slaughtering enterprises in the pig industry, promoting the deep processing of pork products, vigorously developing local pig varieties, strengthening the strength of leading enterprises, creating well-known brands of pork, and introducing support policies for the whole industry chain.
Huang Guoxiong, director of the Hubei Provincial Agricultural Development Center, introduced that according to the plan, by 2025, the pig output in our province will be stable at 42 million heads, and the comprehensive output value of the whole industrial chain of breeding, feeding, raising, adding, transporting and selling will exceed 300 billion yuan, of which the processing output value will be about 100 billion yuan, and the processing conversion rate of pig products will reach about 35%, promoting the transformation of the pig industry from feeding to breeding, processing and trade, and from the low end of the industrial chain to the high-end development.
Summer consumption off-season or enjoy "pork freedom"
Jimu News reporters checked public information show that from October to November last year, the pig price remained at a high level of around 20 yuan per kilogram, fell to 18 yuan per kilogram after New Year's Day this year, and now fell below the 10 yuan mark in less than five months, which also means that the price fell by 50% in half a year.
"The end of the pig cycle is marked by the bottom of the meat price, and now no one knows how much money is the bottom." Master Yu of the farmer said that many practitioners began to slowly replenish piglets in a planned manner after the centralized sale of pigs in the pen, and observed the market development while raising them.
Under the situation that the price of live pigs "falls endlessly", market observers believe that after the consumption period of the Dragon Boat Festival, the public may be able to enjoy "pork freedom" throughout the summer in the future.
According to the person, the price reduction effect of the pig price needs a certain amount of time to be transmitted to the consumer terminal, which means that the pork that is now out of the barn below 10 yuan per kilogram needs to go through a whole chain of processing and circulation, and will appear in the mass retail market with a "price reduction posture".
At the same time, according to the law, the hot summer is the off-season of pork consumption, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, until the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in September and October, there is no holiday consumption stimulation for more than two months, and schools at all levels will also take holidays, in the market supply is sufficient, the demand is decreasing, the price continues to decline, the public can eat cheaper pork in the next few months.
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