Breton pigs in a pig farm, August 11, 2015 in Ploneour Lanvern (AFP / FRED TANNEAU) 
This time it is not the pork producers have revived the tension, but Cooperl and Bigard, two of the main buyers of MPB, where the price is established National reference.
In an attempt to end the crisis in the pig and after several punch stock breeders in the spring, the Government in mid-June advocated a purchase price pork 1.40 euro / kg (the average cost of production), a price finally reached on July 23 at MPB Plérin (Côtes d’Armor).
But this price, “the highest in Europe, “according to the union of industrial meat (SNIV-SNCP), is not to the liking of companies cutting and processing, that face, for export, the distortions of competition created by differences in social security and environmental standards between EU countries.
In the European market, destabilized by the Russian embargo, Germany offers the least expensive pork to 28 cents per kilo compared to the French courts, and the Netherlands 38 cents cheaper, stressed the Cooperl cooperative, leader in France in the pork market and exports 35% of its production.
Concerns of professionals in the pig industry August 14, 2015 in Plérin, lei Quoting Breton Pork Market (AFP / FRED TANNEAU)
So the cooperative, which represents 19% of Brazilian purchases, are suddenly suspended its purchases, refusing to finance “a course + + policy to support the French pig production.”
Even reaction Bigard / Socopa, the market leader group of meat in France, representing 7% of Brazilian purchases.
Bigard and Cooperl (which buys 10% pigs it needs to MPB, with the remainder provided by its 2,700 members) were not presented to the trading sessions of the week or Monday or Thursday usual days or Friday at a session organized exceptionally for . out of the crisis
In their absence, the quotations could take place, depriving farmers of a French reference price negotiations with buyers
. – Round Table –
Now all eyes turn to the round table scheduled for Monday afternoon at the Ministry of Agriculture. Find it MPB officials, representatives of farmers but also of slaughtering and processing enterprises.
pig farmers have lengthened outside the office of MP Bleunven in Plabennec (west), August 12, 2015 to denounce the crisis in the pig sector ( AFP / FRED TANNEAU)
“This panel will decide the life or survival of the Breton Pork Market, and obviously, after that, of life and survival of pork industry, “said Friday the president of the Brazilian Daniel Picart. Holding a market Plérin was postponed “the conclusions of the roundtable,” he said.
Cooperl wants to be decided at the round table, which will be represented, “a return to a free market price” that is determined based on supply and demand, she said in a statement Saturday.
She also announced it must meet Tuesday with Coop de France (representing agricultural cooperatives), the Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll to demand “concrete and urgent steps to abolish intra-European distortions of competition (… ). “
The pig in Europe (AFP / P.Pizarro / V.Lefai)
At the same time, so to keep the pressure on the ground, a press conference with representatives of agricultural unions and JA FRSEA Brittany, Loire Valley and Normandy, the main production of pigs, was announced late Monday morning in Rennes, in the heart of the main basins of French pig production.
In response to the absence of listing, farmers have organized some symbolic actions last week but union officials on Friday called for calm until the end of the Paris meeting. “After the roundtable, we can not continue to stay that way,” warned Didier Lucas, president of the FDSEA of Cotes d’Armor
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