Pork prices drop for 5 weeks in a row!

Drop, drop, drop! In the countdown to the Spring Festival, pork prices have dropped for 5 consecutive weeks! The peak season is not prosperous, what's going on?

In another 20 days, the Spring Festival will arrive, and many people are also starting to prepare ingredients for the New Year

Peak season is not prosperous, supply exceeds demand

National pork prices drop for 5 weeks in a row

In a brand pork sales store in Beijing, the staff told reporters that the pork market has been characterized by a slow peak season and low prices in the past month or so

Li Miao, a staff member of a pork sales store in Beijing: During this period of time, the sales were relatively flat, and the price dropped, by one to two yuan per catty

Li Miao said that according to the laws of previous years, winter, including New Year's Day and Spring Festival, is the peak season for pork consumption for pickled sausages, sausages and centralized stockpiling.

The person in charge of the Xinfadi Wholesale Market in Beijing said that in the past month or so, the average daily volume of white striped pigs on the market has increased by about 50% year-on-year, which is also the main reason for the decline in pork prices

Beijing Xinfadi Market Analyst Liu Tong: Like in early December last year, the wholesale price of white striped pigs in Xinfadi market was about 21 yuan per kilogram, and now it is about 19 yuan per kilogram, mainly because the production capacity of hairy pigs is relatively sufficient, so the listing of white striped pigs The quantity is also stronger

Not only in Beijing, but pork prices across the country have also continued to decline.

High pig inventory and large slaughter volume

Sufficient supply of pork during Chinese New Year

The reporter learned that the current pig inventory is high and the slaughter volume is large

At a meat company in Beijing's Changping District, workers are loading white striped pigs to major wholesale markets and supermarkets in Beijing

Sun Tiexin, deputy general manager of a meat food company in Beijing: At present, we supply about 8,000 heads to the Beijing market every day

Sun Tiexin said that during the Spring Festival, the supply of pork was sufficient, mainly because many farmers rushed to the slaughter before the festival

The data shows that by the end of the third quarter of 2021, the number of live pigs in China exceeded 430 million, an increase of 18.

Xia Chenfeng, a pig industry analyst at Rural Credit Union: During the Spring Festival, the amount of pork on the market will increase.