Ministry of Agriculture: Live pigs in June increased by 0.80% from last month

First Financial News: The Ministry of Agriculture announced on the evening of July 13th the national hog population information announcement that the nation's live pig population was 456.4 million heads in June, an increase of 0.80% from the previous month's 452.8 million, an increase of 0.52% year-on-year; The number of fertile sows was 47.2 million tons, an increase of 0.21% over the 47.10 million in May, and a year-on-year increase of 0.85%.

Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council presided over the State Council executive meeting on the 12th to study and determine policies and measures to promote the sustainable and healthy development of pig production. The meeting decided that this year, the central government will support the investment of large-scale standardized farms and community construction to 2.5 billion yuan, which will be appropriately increased in the future; subsidies will be granted to farmers (farms) at the standard of 100 yuan for each breeding sow; continue implementation The policy of subsidizing insurance premiums for sows and sows; supporting the construction of raw pig breeding grounds and increasing the subsidy for frozen bovine fines. Bringing hogs out of the county awards range from 421 counties to 500 counties.

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on July 9, the year-on-year increase in CPI in June reached a new high in three years, reaching 6.4%; and in June, the price of pork increased by 57.1% year-on-year, and at the end of June exceeded the historic high of 20 yuan per catty. .

The Ministry of Commerce announced on July 12 that during the week ending July 10, the average ex-factory price of white meat for designated pig slaughtered enterprises above the designated size in the country was 25.17 yuan per kilogram, up 1.86% from the previous week.