Thursday, February 13, 2020

Coronavirus adds to pork woes in China



Travel restrictions are making the pork shortage in China even worse than the loss of half of the nation’s pigs to Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus.

Pork prices in January were 116 per cent higher than a year ago.

The travel restrictions are making it difficult to deliver market-ready hogs to slaughter plants.

Chinese customers are also turning up their noses to chicken and seeking pork, Reuters news agency reports.