At present, the number of livestock and poultry in rural areas is decreasing, and farming is gradually transferred to farming enterprises. However, there are also some breeding enterprises that do not have their own breeding pens, but transfer pigs to farmers for breeding, making profits from them and obtaining government project subsidies.
Now everything should be in line with international standards and decided according to the actual situation in various places. Livestock and poultry breeding should be carried out on a small scale in rural areas. First of all, raising livestock and poultry in rural areas can reduce the pollution of feces and air. Large-scale farming means concentrating pollution, polluting first, and then the country will continue to control pollution. Second, we can make full use of feed resources in rural areas and reduce feed imports. Large-scale farming needs to import everything, because domestic food and feed resources are seriously insufficient in protein, and only a large number of imports can meet the needs. Third, rural farming can effectively stabilize the pork market price and ensure the supply of fat pigs in the market, and it is easy to have price monopoly when large-scale farming is implemented.
In the face of soaring pork prices, ordinary people could not afford fruit before, but now they can't afford pork. They usually take two measures to deal with the impact of rising pork prices. On the one hand, friends who love pork buy a lot of pork at one time and put it in the refrigerator, so they won't worry about the sharp rise in pork prices. On the other hand, some citizens think it is not good to eat pork regularly. Now the price of pork has gone up. Compared with other meat products, the price advantage is no longer obvious. We can eat fish, chicken, duck, cattle, sheep and other meat products.
The question now is, who will be the biggest beneficiary of the recent surge in pork prices? First of all, pork prices have soared, and many people think that pork farmers are the biggest beneficiaries. This is also the case. In the past, when pork sold 10 yuan a catty, the purchase price of live pigs was 5-6 a catty. Now the price of pork has risen above that of 20 yuan, and the purchase price of live pigs is more than RMB 10.
However, since last year, due to the African swine fever epidemic, small and medium-sized farmers have greatly reduced the number of live pigs. In this way, it will be a heavy loss, and large pig farms may barely break even because of the scale effect. Now the price of pork has soared, which just makes up for their previous losses. It is far from saying that pork farmers are the biggest beneficiaries of rising pig prices.
Furthermore, see if the slaughter company is the biggest beneficiary. Since the standardization of pig slaughter, private individuals are not allowed to slaughter pigs, otherwise they will face fines. However, pig slaughter companies generally charge a pig to calculate the slaughter price of a pig. Although the price of pigs has risen now, the amount of pigs slaughtered has decreased. Therefore, the slaughter of pigs is greatly reduced, and it is difficult for slaughterhouses to obtain too much income in the process of rising pig prices.
Finally, all aspects of pig dealers and people who speculate in pork futures are the biggest beneficiaries. On the one hand, when the purchase price of live pigs goes up, a large number of pig dealers will buy pork at a low price and then store the collected pork in the cold storage. Once the pig price goes up, it can be shipped at a high level. On the other hand, with the sharp rise in domestic pork prices, some big funds can speculate on pork futures. This time, the price of pigs has skyrocketed, and speculators who do more pork futures can easily make a fortune. Pig dealers and speculators in pork futures are the biggest beneficiaries.
Domestic pork prices have risen sharply in the short term. Many people ask who is the ultimate beneficiary. That's definitely not a consumer. Consumers are miserable and can't afford pork. It will not be a pig farmer, because the losses in the early stage of raising pigs were heavy, and now making money just makes up for the losses. Not a slaughter company, because the number of pigs slaughtered has decreased, and the slaughter company will not get much benefit. Only large and small pig dealers and speculative pork futures speculators have made a lot of money by rising pork prices. The profits from the increase in the price of live pigs have flowed to speculators.