It is increasingly difficult to find a Polish pork chop. Will there be successors to produce Polish pork?

Published 2024년 12월 9일

Tridge summary

The article highlights the challenges faced by the pig farming industry in Poland, particularly in the Warmia-Masuria region, due to African Swine Fever (ASF) and market conditions. Since the first ASF case in 2011, the industry has seen a significant decline, with the number of pigs dropping from 20 million to around 9 million, and around 12,000 farms closing. The industry also faces issues like adaptation to strict breeding requirements and competition from imported pigs. Small-scale farmers struggle to meet biosecurity requirements and maintain financial sustainability, leading to many abandoning pig breeding. The future of the Polish pig farming industry and its products remains uncertain due to these challenges.
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Original content

Those who know the subject remember the so-called pig peaks and troughs. When the price rose because there was a shortage of live pigs on the market, farmers would put the pigs in the pigsty, and when it fell, they would stop fattening. Farms that ran a so-called closed cycle, i.e. from piglet to fattener, were resistant to such situations. When some complained about low prices, others said that nothing was happening. Over time, however, the price troughs became longer and longer. In addition, in February next year, it will be 11 years since the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was confirmed in Poland. The virus is of course not dangerous to humans, but deadly dangerous to pigs. Since then, pig farming has become a real challenge. Because on the one hand, there are market conditions, and on the other, the threat of losing the herd or additional problems related to the sale of live pigs if ASF occurs in the neighborhood. - There are fewer and fewer people like me who still ...
Source: Farmer.pl

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