The agricultural and political world’s eyes turned to the Breton Pork Market (MPB) in Plérin whether a quotation pork will stick to it, while two of the main buyers, and Cooperl Bigard, refusing since Monday to pay the price demanded by the government.
On Monday, the Breton Pork Market (MPB) has not opened its quotes, in the absence of two of its thirteen buyers, Bigard and Cooperl, which alone account for 30% of purchases in this market. It should be the same on Thursday for the second weekly listing.
Cliquez for larger computer graphics While large distribution groups – E.Leclerc, Intermarché and Casino – must be present to demonstrate their determination to maintain the price of pork around 1.40 Euro, Cooperl announced she would always absent from the market. The cooperative thus increases the pressure on the government and protested against the too high level during the French pig. At 1.40, it is higher than 28 cents during the German pork, and 38 cents in the Dutch pig. Cooperl, which produces 20% of French pigmeat, federates 2700 pig farmers who directly provide. So she buys on the MPB 5% to 7% of hogs that it processes.
The cooperative has denounced the malfunctioning of the market at Plérin dial. It considers that its rules would undermine a free pricing, which prevent them from falling. According to Patrice Drillet, President of Cooperl, some buyers, like the large retail chains can afford to buy pork at € 1.40 to “preserve social peace” because they are “not exposed to competition International “. The cooperative, which exports 35% of its production, can not buy at this price. Emmanuel Commault, CEO of Cooperl explained in Ouest-France that “the differences between [its] costs based on French courses at € 1.40 and [its] recipes based in part on the German course in 1.10 are such that it generates abyssal losses “. The leaders of the cooperative say they return to the market only if the price will be set in a transparent and open manner. For its part, Bigard has not specified if he would participate in Thursday’s market, the opening is always compromised.
The courses administered implemented as a result of the round table of 17 June are ineffective. They have not solved the deadlock. Manufacturers consider that the price of € 1.40 is too high considering most competitive foreign competitors. The German slaughterhouses employ workers from Eastern Europe affecting low wages. As for the farmers, said Paul Auffray, president of the National Federation of swine, the price of 1.40 euros just covers their production costs.
Cliquez for larger computer graphics Price regulation strangles national industrial France that source by imposing on them the entire burden of upgrading courses that not only support foreign buyers, not covered by the agreement of 17 June or the national industrial who source abroad.
In this situation, Stéphane Le Foll announced the holding of a new roundtable end August, while Xavier Beulin, president of the FNSEA, called for a rapid European response. The subject will be in focus of the meeting of European Ministers for Agriculture, September 7.
What term solutions? Yves Audo, the vice president of Agromousquetaires, food production center of Intermarché group is working on a “medium-term contracting relationships with breeders cooperatives”. His group, which buys on the market Plérin that some pigs that transforms wishes to guarantee farmers greater stability of the purchase price and long-term visibility. Yves Audo said that the maintenance of production in Britain is a priority for the group since its production plants established in the region.
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