Posted on 04/11/2021 3:20:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The prevention and control of African swine fever has become normal practise in mainland China but official reports on the African swine fever epidemic in China have been sporadic, seemingly with the intention of downplaying the seriousness of the problem.
On April 7, Henan Shuanghui Investment and Development Co., Ltd., a leading company in China’s meat industry, revealed on an investor interactive platform that the African swine fever epidemic will be an uncertain factor affecting the price trend of live pigs this year and needs close attention.
China had a large-scale outbreak of African swine fever from August 2018 to the end of 2019. It hit the pork industry hard and caused pork prices to soar. In January and February of this year, the price of pork in China had a short-lived decline. A report on Yicai.com suggested that this was related to the concentrated selling caused by the outbreak of African swine fever. The report said that African swine fever has never disappeared in China.
According to Jan Cortenbach, chief technical officer of feed producer Wellhope-De Heus Animal Nutrition, “at least 20 percent of the hog was affected, and maybe even 25 percent” in northern and northeastern provinces of China by the outbreak of African swine fever in the first quarter of this year.
This statement coincides with March data from Beijing-based CnAgri-China Agricultural Consulting Ltd. It showed that sow stocks in northern China fell by 25 to 30 percent last month compared to February.
According to China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, an outbreak of African swine fever was reported on April 5 in the Fourth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. An outbreak of African swine fever occurred on a pig farm in Yining City, Xinjiang, on March 24
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Isn’t it wacist to call it that?
You beat me to it. No it is not racist because multinational corporations don’t make much profit there as compared to China.
China apparently is having a bad time with viruses hitting both swine and poultry. They have tried to blame us for their problems. This all started before they gifted the world with the Wuhan virus.
Smithfield Pork is owned by the Chinese
Sounds like China has a mooshoo pork crisis.
Next Big Idea: China develops a disease in Africa, avoids the blame, and gets to watch as Biden allows all of Africa to escape to America.
"China had a large-scale outbreak of African swine fever from August 2018 to the end of 2019.
It hit the pork industry hard and caused pork prices to soar.
In January and February of this year, the price of pork in China had a short-lived decline.
A report on Yicai.com suggested that this was related to the concentrated selling caused by the outbreak of African swine fever.
The report said that African swine fever has never disappeared in China."
According to Jan Cortenbach, chief technical officer of feed producer Wellhope-De Heus Animal Nutrition, “at least 20 percent of the hog was affected, and maybe even 25 percent”
in northern and northeastern provinces of China by the outbreak of African swine fever in the first quarter of this year."
"This statement coincides with March data from Beijing-based CnAgri-China Agricultural Consulting Ltd.
It showed that sow stocks in northern China fell by 25 to 30 percent last month compared to February."
My comment : When you sell off your breeding stock, you eliminate the possibility of growing home grown livestock replacements.
That puts an unanticipated additional burden on your international importing expenses.
Apparently, the short-lived decline in pork prices may have been due to selling off juvenile piglets before they became infected with the Swine Fever,
since they were not yet of a sufficient age to reproduce and be breeding stock.
As ‘one of the military members’ who survived the 1975 outbreak at Ft. Dix/McGuire AFB, and Dover AFB, I c as n tell you it was 2 weeks of intensive care followed by a month in a hospital ward.
But as far as mainland Red China goes, this old Cold War veteran says, “Couldn’t’ve happened to a nicer bunch of folks!”
TheChicoms seem almost prescient in their purchase of Smithfield pork.
Chinese Communists are allowed to be racists, because they have a different social and cultural context. If you weren’t so xenophobic and racist and such a damn nationalist imperialist running dog meanie, you’d understand that.
From the Swine at the CCP...appropriate.
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