Mercolleida notes a second drop in the price of pork following the detection of the plague.

Mercolleida has already recorded a second drop in the price of fattening pigs since the outbreak of African swine fever was detected in the Collserolla mountains (Barcelona). The meat industries and large pig companies in Spain that form part of the Mercolleida price board have proposed this Thursday to slaughter all wild boars within a 20-kilometer radius of where the African swine fever (ASF) was detected and to empty the fattening pig farms in the area. This was explained by the general director of the market, Miquel Àngel Bergés, who has called for "unity" in the sector and said that they are asking for "maximum speed" to act on the zero area to "guarantee that the virus does not leave this area." "The only way to prevent it from jumping to other counties or even other provinces is by slaughtering the pigs," he stated. Bergés made these statements at the end of the fattening pig price board, which set a new decrease of 10 cents, to 1.10 euros per kilo. This decrease is added ...