Mercolleida believes that the outbreak of swine fever detected in Catalonia will put pressure on the markets.

The director of Mercolleida, a leading pork market in Spain and Europe, Miquel Bergés, has called the detection of two wild boars dead from African swine fever in Catalonia "bad news," which, in his opinion, "will put pressure on all European pork markets since Spain is the leading producer and exporter." The sector is waiting to see how each country will respond to the export closure following the confirmation of these two cases. "We will have to see what happens in the end with China. It seems that they accept regionalization within a 20-kilometer radius of where the boars were found, in an area where there is no slaughterhouse and very few farms," Bergés pointed out. "Korea and the Philippines also seem to be able to accept regionalization. Japan probably will not, because it does not accept it with anyone. We will have to see country by country," explained the director of Mercolleida, who hopes that the disease can be contained due to the low livestock density in the area. ...