Netherlands: Price crisis in pig market is hard blow for sector

The meat group was still able to refute excellent annual figures for 2020. This year, he says, the flag is very different. "While we are doing our best to prop up the pig price, we are seeing meat prices fall." 2020 was a good year financially, according to the annual figures. How do you look back on that?" That was largely due to the meat sales in China, we need not make a secret of that. In that respect, 2019 and 2020 were a gift for the pig farming sector and also for meat companies. Blokland Cold Stores had extra freezing capacity, we were able to respond well to the sales opportunities in Asia, but sales opportunities have unfortunately deteriorated considerably since this spring." Can you speak of a difference of day and night?"In our situation you could indeed speak of a difference of day and night. Unfortunately, since February we can no longer export to China, due to the license that has been revoked. This means that we We were also unable to sell the by-products there. ...