The ASF crisis in Germany helps Spain become the EU's leading producer

Published 2021년 10월 19일

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Spain has emerged as the leading pork producer in the EU region, capitalizing on Germany's loss in the market due to African swine fever (ASF). The country's less stringent regulations on zoning and waste use have attracted significant investment from pork processing companies like Toennies, which is building a meat packing and slaughter plant in Calamocha, Spain. The facility is expected to create 1,000 jobs and slaughter 2.4 million animals annually. The majority of the production will be exported to Asia, particularly China, which is recovering from ASF-related losses and experiencing surging demand for imported pork.

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As a child living in the state of Avila, his father Albert Pascual raised 100 pigs, and now his company has more than 9,000 pigs - part of a massive expansion that has helped Spain on the rise. over the region's top pork producer this year. "My father used to sell pigs in the 1990s, when the field didn't really exist. Now we (Spain) are a world power, we have developed a lot and our company. I have grown in tandem with the growth and development of the sector," said Mr. Pascual. According to Reuters, Germany has always remained in the ranking of major EU pork producers, but the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in September 2020 in wild boar caused the country to lose access to the market. Top consumer in the world - China. That has prompted the shift of EU production to Spain - where the ASF virus does not exist. And this shift has been made possible thanks to the country's less cumbersome regulations in areas such as zoning and waste use. Up to now, China is still the ...

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