Concern in the market over the price of pork. By César Lumbreras

The ten days that have passed since the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was announced have been marked by a sharp drop in the prices of white pork at the source and by the maintenance of Iberian pork prices at historic levels; also by the latest information released on Friday about the possibility that "the bug" may have escaped from a laboratory of the Catalan IRTA, located near the area where the dead wild boars have appeared. Finally, due to the criticism of the Agriculture counselor from the PP, as they learned about this latest news through the media, despite the fact that the Minister of Agriculture, the Socialist Luis Planas, had committed to keeping them informed promptly of whatever was happening. The pork sector is facing the crisis caused by the reappearance in Spain of the African swine fever virus with a very different situation regarding prices. On one hand, there is white pork, which had been registering very high prices in recent years, but which had already ...