Imported pork increased by 158%, domestic livestock farmers struggling.

On November 13, representatives from the Hoc Mon Wholesale Market reported that the recent pig supply to the market reached approximately 5,600 pigs, including around 321 piglets. Notably, the price of live pigs at smallholder farms is only 50,000 VND/kg. Therefore, the price of grade 1 pigs at the market is 60,000 VND/kg, and grade 2 pigs are 52,000 VND/kg. Various types of pork such as pork chops are priced at 60,000 VND/kg, pork ribs at 105,000 VND/kg, and pork ribs at 120,000 VND/kg. Enterprises believe that the number of piglets still coming to the wholesale market is due to the impact of floods in some areas. Farmers are anxious and are selling to "run from the disease," which has caused a sharp drop in market prices for live pigs. Regarding the price of live pigs, Mr. Nguyen Kim Doan, Vice Chairman of the Dong Nai Livestock Association, said that currently, the price of live pigs in Dong Nai is only around 48,000 VND/kg (applied to standard pigs). If the live pigs weigh ...