After Dinh Dau New Year, farmers in the Southeast region became less depressed when the price of pigs inched slightly up to VND 37,000 / kg, an increase of about VND 10,000 / kg compared with the time of December of the year of the Monkey. This is a little joy for the farmers on the occasion of the new year. However, the catastrophic slump of 2016 is questioning the pork industry in this area.
The pig industry needs to strengthen the linkage
Due to the price from the previous years, in 2016, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province developed a herd of pigs to about 400,000, Binh Phuoc also had nearly 400,000 pigs and especially in Dong Nai, the pigs grew rapidly, with 2, 2 million heads, leading the whole country. Normally, farmers dedicate supplies to sell during Tet, but in the Year of the Rooster 2017, the price of pigs slightly reaches the bottom, only VND 26,000 - 27,000 / kg, causing farmers to suffer heavy losses of around VND 2 million / The pig slaughtered. The reason for the lowest price of pigs in the past 10 years is indicated by the fact that China stopped importing Vietnamese pigs, resulting in a large stock of pigs, the price dropped sharply. Only calculating the minimum loss of 1 million VND per pig, in 2016, farmers in the Southeast region had a loss of nearly 3,000 billion VND.
Mr. Nguyen Van Quang, a small-scale pig farmer in Thong Nhat district (Dong Nai province) said that the main reason for the increase in live hog price is due to reduced supply, because recently, the price of pigs has slipped. slope is too deep, many farm owners have sold, sold off, organized "hanging barn" pretty much.
The price of live hogs showing signs of prosperity at the beginning of the new year has made farmers expect that the market of pigs will be less gloomy in the near future, but the current price of live pigs is still a certain distance from production costs. and supply is still much larger than demand. Therefore, this is the time for farmers in the Southeast to consider "reducing the herd, increasing the quality". In Dong Nai, the "breeding capital" of the whole country, the whole province still has about 400,000 pigs with the weight of 70kg or more. On average, the daily demand in Dong Nai and exported to Ho Chi Minh City is just over 5,000 and it takes at least 3-4 months or more to solve all the pigs left.
Mr. Huynh Thanh Vinh, Director of Dong Nai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the department is now calling on processing enterprises to increase purchasing of pigs and continue to encourage pig farmers to look at the market in time. adjust the herd size, avoid risk of farming.
In order to avoid the situation of market haggling, the region's pig raising industry needs to strengthen the chain of linkages, with investment participation, to connect the market of enterprises and associated organizations in the production and services of cooperatives, cooperative groups, with livestock households. At the same time, it is also necessary to adjust the production direction from chasing quantity to quality, producing clean meat - high quality instead of just focusing on the Chinese market to both avoid risks, increase prices and increase revenues. enter for farmers.
Author: Duc Trung
Source: Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper