However, my uncle's family is very lucky this year. Although there are various natural disasters, they have not affected the uncle's family.

Especially due to the sharp rise in meat prices caused by swine fever, my uncle's four big fat pigs were sold at a good price.

Shortly after killing the New Year pig last year, my uncle bought four piglets. By July, they were almost over 200 piglets.

At that time, the price of live pigs kept rising, so my uncle wanted to kill two pigs. However, it was the time when management was strictest, many butchers were almost closed down, and pork from rural areas was not allowed to be sold. So at that time

It was delayed.

Who would have known that the price of pigs would never stop rising later, from more than eight yuan per catty of live pigs, to more than ten yuan per catty, and then to more than fifteen yuan per catty. Not long ago, the price of live pigs exceeded $10 per catty.

Twenty dollars.

Although the swine fever was almost over, the price of pigs continued to rise. When it reached 21 yuan per pound, my uncle sold four big fat pigs at once.

When I planned to kill the four pigs, each weighed just over 200 kilograms. Later, I failed to kill them, but seeing the price of pigs rising steadily, my grandmother and aunt took care of the pigs more carefully. Later, they started from one day to

Feeding was changed from two meals to three meals a day.

When they were sold not long ago, the smallest pig weighed 330 kilograms, and the four pigs were sold for a total of 29,000 yuan.

Even after the money arrived, neither my aunt nor my grandmother could believe that one day a pig could be sold for seven to eight thousand yuan.

You must know that during the Chinese New Year last year, the price of live pigs was still around eight yuan per catty. Who knew that before the year was over, the price of live pigs would rise from a few cents at a time to 30 to 50 cents to more than one yuan at a time, and finally it would rise again.

To more than twenty yuan.

In fact, since the price of live pigs has soared, and the price of pork belly has risen to 17 or 18 yuan per pound, people in rural areas have gradually bought less meat. Even if they do buy meat, they buy less than before.

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Everyone has switched to eating chicken and fish. Pork belly used to cost about ten yuan per pound, but now it costs twenty. Although the price of chicken has also increased, it is not as outrageous as pork. You can eat a meal of meat for the same price.

Bought a chicken.

During this period of time, every time Wu Fei went to the streets to do errands, he found that there was no pork to sell. However, the price of pork continued to hit new highs.

In fact, there is really no shortage of pork now. A steady stream of imported pork, as well as a large amount of frozen meat stockpiled by the country, are constantly being put into the market.

The news keeps reporting that there is no shortage of pork, there is no shortage of pork... Anyway, I haven't found any place where I can't buy meat during this period of time, but the price of pork has become a bit unaffordable.

In fact, what we are most lacking now are pigs and sows that can reproduce. The number of pigs and sows is seriously insufficient.

The resulting situation is that due to insufficient stock, the number of livestock replacements has been unable to increase, and the number of pigs for slaughter has naturally become seriously scarce, causing the price of pigs to continue to rise.

The rise in the price of live pigs will naturally lead to an increase in the retail price of pork. When the price of live pigs rises to more than 20 yuan per catty, it is inevitable that pork will cost 30 to 40 yuan per catty. This was unimaginable in the past.

Things eventually became facts.

The rise in pork prices is not limited to pork, but will lead to a collective increase in the prices of other food products.

During the period when Wu Fei returned home, Wu Fei discovered that the prices of beef, mutton, live chicken, fish and other meat and vegetables in the market had increased to varying degrees.

If a grown man can notice that the price has increased significantly, it usually increases by a lot. As for food that is usually not very expensive, even if the price increases by a few cents per pound, many people will not notice it.

Neither the country nor ordinary consumers want to see such a situation. They all want to curb the rise in pork prices, but it is impossible to reduce the price of pork to the level of half a year ago in a short time.

arrive.

Therefore, it is inevitable to eat high-priced meat for a period of time. Even other daily necessities are quietly rising. Anyway, it is right to spend more money.

But for farmers in rural areas, the impact is not very big. If they raise three or five fat pigs like my uncle's family, they can make a small profit. Maybe the money they make from raising pigs is more than the money they make from taking care of three or five acres.

The crops will make more money.

Originally, after my uncle sold the four fat pigs some time ago, he planned to buy a few piglets to raise. But when he saw the price of piglets in the market, he quickly gave up.

Compared with the price of pork, the price of piglets has risen even more crazily. When I bought the four piglets in February, the piglets of about 30 kilograms only cost about ten yuan per kilogram.

In the past eight or nine months, the price of piglets has already gone through several somersaults. The last time I went to the market to inquire, I found that the price of piglets of about 30 kilograms has risen to 60 per kilogram.

Moreover, many piglets are fed to sixty or seventy pounds. Although it is a little cheaper than piglets of about thirty pounds, at a price of forty or fifty yuan per pound, it costs two to three thousand yuan to buy a piglet.

Already.

Even if it weighs about 30 pounds, a piglet costs about 2,000 yuan. Buying four or five piglets costs 10,000 yuan.

Seeing this price, my uncle turned around and left. Although the price of live pigs is high now, it will take at least half a year before the piglets can be sold for slaughter.

At that time, we still don’t know what the price of meat will be. Even if the price of pork is about the same then, it doesn’t mean that if we buy it back, we will definitely be able to feed it to the slaughterhouse.

This year's swine fever has killed a lot of pigs, and some villages have died one after another. That is to say, I am lucky this year, and there is no swine fever in my uncle's village.

You must know that those four pigs became more and more wary as they were fed to the back. During that period of time, no outsiders, whether acquaintances or strangers, were allowed to enter the pig pens, for fear that they would bring germs from outside.

Go to the pig pen.

Not to mention buying pork to eat at home, everything that might bring swine fever germs was blocked outside the pig pen.

For example, piglets cost fifty or sixty yuan a pound. The cost and risk are too great. If you are not careful, you will lose tens of thousands of yuan.

The current pig price cannot continue for a long time. With the disappearance of the swine fever epidemic, the decline in pork prices is an inevitable trend. It is just a matter of whether the decline process is fast or slow.

However, no matter how the price of pork changes, it is not a good idea to buy such expensive piglets now. If they are fed for more than half a year and can be sold to more than 200 kilograms, a pig will only sell for a little more than 4,000, and two piglets will be deducted.

A thousand yuan for a piglet.

Apart from the usual feed and grain, there is no profit in feeding a pig. When a pig is fed from thirty kilograms to two hundred kilograms, the feed consumed in this process is about six to seven hundred kilograms. Like in rural areas

If you feed less, you may consume more. Even if you feed some green materials from the field and leftovers, the cost may be around a thousand yuan.

Calculated in this way, if you feed a pig for half a year, you can earn around 1,000 yuan. In fact, in normal times, earning 1,000 yuan per pig is not bad, but now it costs 2,000 yuan to even buy a piglet.
Chapter completed!