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    At the end of December 2020, there will be 41.61 million sows and 407 million pigs

    • Last Update: 2021-02-10
    • Source: Internet
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    Spring Festival is approaching day by day, relatives and friends gather, stutter meat when more and more.
    the supply of pork on the dinner table for urban and rural residents guaranteed? Is there an adequate supply of other livestock and poultry meat? Reporters on these issues interviewed industry experts and industry authorities.
    Wang Zuli, an associate researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and chief expert on pig industry monitoring and early warning at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said: "From the perspective of the recovery of pig production capacity, the increase in pork production, the central reserve frozen pork delivery of several trends, pork supply during the Spring Festival is more adequate, the overall downward trend in pig prices is obvious."
    2020, under the impetus of the market and policies, pig production has continued to accelerate recovery, production capacity has increased rapidly, the outbreak of swine fever in Africa has been effectively controlled, and the supply of pig market has continued to improve.
    the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of December 2020, the country's sow storage column for 15 consecutive months month-on-month growth, pig storage column for 11 consecutive months month-on-month growth.
    according to the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of December 2020 there were 407 million pigs and 41.61 million sows, respectively, recovering to 92.1% and 93.1% at the end of 2017.
    " from the slaughter volume data can be clearly seen that the early production capacity recovery has formed pork production released to the market.
    the lag between recovery from capacity to production growth has passed and production is beginning to materialise.
    ," Mr Wang said.
    monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the number of pigs released and slaughtered has increased significantly since August 2020.
    , especially in recent months, the growth momentum has been very good.
    of slaughtering enterprises above the scale increased by 9% month-on-month in September 2020, 11.5% month-on-month in October, 13.5% month-on-month in November and 26.7% month-on-month in December.
    in November and December were up more than 40% year-on-year.
    addition, from the point of view of the central reserve meat delivery, a total of 670,000 tons of reserve meat will be put into storage in 2020, and four batches of 110,000 tons have been put in January this year, and will continue to be delivered in batches in February.
    prices, the price of live pigs began to fall in early January this year, from about 36.7 yuan per kilogram to about 32 yuan now; Pork prices have also started to fall, with wholesale prices falling from a January high of 47.64 yuan per kilogram to 45.30 yuan on February 4.
    Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs convened experts to discuss, combined with the recovery of pig production in the early stage, the number of newborn piglets, pig feed sales and other factors, it is expected that in January-February this year, pig out of the column than the same period last year increased by about 25%, the later pork prices still have room for decline.
    It is understood that in 2020 poultry, cattle and sheep production situation is very good, according to the National Bureau of Statistics data, the annual poultry and egg production increased by 4.8%, poultry production increased by 5.5%, beef production increased by 0.8%, lamb production increased by 1%, milk production increased by 7.5%, during the Spring Festival market supply is guaranteed.
    in accordance with the laws of previous years, before the Spring Festival broiler and cattle and sheep out of the column is more concentrated, market supply and consumption growth synchronization, prices will be stable."
    egg prices affected by the recent outbreak of new crown pneumonia prevention and control, after two weeks after New Year's Day, the recent start of a decline, the wholesale price of eggs from the January high of 10.64 yuan per kilogram to February 4 8.81 yuan.
    Next, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will earnestly implement the deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, urge all localities to implement the responsibility and policy measures for the steady production and supply of pigs, give full play to the role of policy incentives, insist on keeping large and small, and speed up the upgrading of pig production capacity.
    to guide pig farmers out of the column in an orderly manner, to increase the supply of fat pigs listed during the Spring Festival.
    to co-ordinate the production of cattle, sheep and poultry, increase the production of beef and sheep out of the column, and stabilize the production of eggs and poultry meat.
    closely follow the recent weather changes, effectively prevent and dispose of cold weather, guide farmers to do a good job of animal and poultry ring house reinforcement and cold protection and warm preparation, increase feed and other input transfer reserves.
    strengthen the prevention and control of major animal diseases such as swine fever in Africa, implement key technologies for the normalization of prevention and control, and ensure that the epidemic does not rebound.
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