This could be a great opportunity for Hungarian pig farming, but we don't take advantage of it

Tibor Ábrahám, commercial director of the Alföldi Sertés Mezőgazdasági Szövetkezet, said that the main destination of Hungarian pork exports is Romania, but in the last five years, not only the number of slaughterhouses and slaughters, but also the volume of pigs delivered from Hungary has decreased, and in addition, a new player has appeared in the form of Bulgaria in the market. In Romania, a legal framework for reproduction was also created, the aim of which is to increase the country's self-sufficiency to 80%, but since this is currently only 30%, this initiative does not pose a threat to Hungarian exports for the time being. According to Tibor Ábrahám, the peculiarity of Romanian consumption plays an important role in the decrease of exports, which essentially grinds everything apart from the bone rib as raw material, and this is also reflected in the prices, and because of this, it is less and less worth shipping Hungarian goods there. The expert also spoke about the fact ...