The President of the Breton Pork Market (MPB), Daniel Picart, and the Minister of Agriculture Monday, August 17 announced that trading would resume on Tuesday, but without Cooperl and Bigard, both buyers causing the standoff with farmers, who have withdrawn from Plérin market last week.
M. Picart announced this reopening “without being satisfied” to the absence of the two main logging companies, which had not participated in the round table of industry players organized by the Minister agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, on Monday afternoon in Paris. The Minister welcomed the common will in the pig industry “find solutions” , while “all the discussions have not resulted.”
1.40 euros per kilo
For a week, trading is suspended dial Plérin market because Cooperl Socopa-Bigard and refuse to pay the ranchers prices recommended by the government, set at € 1.40 per kilo. The two logging companies argue that this price is disconnected from the economic reality of the European market (28 cents more than in Germany and 38 cents more than in the Netherlands, according to Cooperl ). The two groups, which call “a return to a free market price” dictated by supply and demand, must be received separately on Tuesday and Wednesday at the ministry. It will be according to the Ministry “to address short-term issues, including export, but the outlook for these two major companies in the field of pork” .
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As the crisis seems far from settled, it is unclear for now how pork prices will be sold Tuesday on the market Plérin. Daniel Picart said Monday that “the mechanics of the market can lower the price below 1.40,” but it’s “neither the desire of the market, nor wish of people around the table today “.
” A number of discussions will engage, as early as next week, for the establishment of a changes in the pricing system, including the partial adaptation of the operation of Brittany pork market “, said its William Roue side of the INAPORC, inter swine, and hope that ” a little more serene relationships between the various links in the chain “.
mobilizations scheduled for September
On Monday morning, prior to the roundtable, agricultural unions of the main pig producing regions had demanded that the trading resumes on Tuesday and the state to intervene in order to continue to shoot and store pigs, because the animals are crammed into the barns since the suspension Sales. Otherwise they threatened to take over the knuckle-fist action throughout France
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In addition to the round table of emergency Monday, the ministry has planned two meetings in late August and early September, on marketing in the pig industry, disrupted by the Russian embargo for more one year. FNSEA announced a gathering of pastoralists in Paris on September 3. Another mobilization is planned in Brussels on September 7, the day of the meeting of the European Council of Agriculture
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