Despite the record consumption of pork, Santa Fe slaughterhouses claimed that "profitability is nil."

Despite recording historic levels of consumption, pig slaughterhouses dedicated to pork production are going through a complex moment marked by the loss of profitability, the impact of imports, and an adverse macroeconomic context. This is how Carlos Ingino, head of Figan, a company dedicated to the development of the pork value chain, described it in an interview with UNO Santa Fe. “For about 20 years, pork consumption has been growing steadily at an average rate of 8% per year,” Ingino pointed out, though he warned that this growth did not always translate into profits. “During that period, there were times with very good profitability and others with zero profitability, like the current moment,” he affirmed. National data According to data collected by the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries, during the past year the pork sector at the national level reached a record in slaughter and production, with 8,517,433 heads and 812,272 tons, respectively, a result that ...