Imported pigs decrease the price of domestic ones - Slaughter companies jeopardize pigs breeders in Serbia

Price of live pig kilogram fell from RSD 220 to 115 during the last two months due to tendency of mass import of pigs from Croatia and Hungary. This what Zlatan Djuric, president of the Union of agricultural producers from Sremska Mitrovica says for Blic.

- Slaughter companies are importing huge quantities of pigs so that domestic production would be less valuable and so that meat would be bought at lower prices which later they sell to Russia at much higher prices – Djuric says.

Farmers explain that imported pigs cannot go to the Russian market but surplus is created at the market.

-Pigs breeding collapsed. Due to monopoly of processors, none of us has calculation to deal with pigs breeding.

If it is true that export to Russia is the job of the year and we do not ear, and then let them say for whom the business is when we are closing companies – Djuric says.

Domestic producers started selling pigs to illegal slaughters because they get 180 dinars per kilogram.