The pig market in Europe - the current overview

The pig market in the European Union is still struggling with the repercussions related to the coronavirus epidemic (ban on sales to China, closed slaughterhouses). The profitability of production is negatively affected by high feed prices, which recorded increases of several dozen percent. The situation is dramatic in Romania due to African swine fever. The British, on the other hand, were hard hit by the effects of leaving the European Union. The progressive stabilization of the situation in Germany gives hope. On Friday 5 February 2021, a three-hour meeting of the Copa Cogeca group of experts of the pig section took place. The meeting was attended by representatives of Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Cyprus and Poland. At the beginning of the meeting, the chairman, Antonio Tavarez, announced the transfer to the ...