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Pig breeders lost 20 million euro after the two cases due to imports
Pig breeders had to drop prices by over 25% in the last two months, losing 20 million euro, after the Romanian market was covered by low prices of the European producers who lost the contracts with the Russian market, according to the Federation ProAgro.
‘The price of pork with the Romanian producers dropped drastically over the last two months, due to the dumping prices practiced by the European producers who lost the contracts with the Russian market, after the embargo. Unfortunately, these drops of price are not to be found on the shelves of shops’ Alex Jurconi, the chairman of the National Federation Pro Agro said.
He explained the most quantities of meat come from companies in the Netherlands and Poland.
He stated that this is the reason why the pork producers accumulated over the last two months ‘huge’ losses. The employers’ associations in the domain estimate that these losses surpassed 20 million euro.
‘The perspective is that producers get to losses of over 100 million euro in six months’ Jurconi said. In a similar situation are the producers of chicken and dairy products.
Ioan Popa, the owner of Transavia stated that in the second part of the year there is a huge pressure to drop prices with chicken which is supplementary to the crisis in Ukraine and the fact that much meat which went to Russia comes to us.
The sales of dairy products in Romania dropped in September and October by 25% against the similar period of 2013, the market being covered by big quantities of products produced in the EU, after the embargo imposed by Russia, said the APRIL employers’ association.