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The minister will attend the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries in Luxembourg on Monday to raise the issue.
He said that he had the support of many other EU ministers for the intervention of the European Commission, as the low purchase prices of pork had become a problem for the whole community.
“The situation in the Lithuanian pig sector is really bad and continues to worsen. This is a problem at the European Union level. We will ask the European Commission for exceptional market regulation measures to ensure the stability of the sector. Assessing the magnitude of the crisis, we will propose not to rule out the possibility of applying more radical measures, those that would help to control the volume of production, “said K. Navickas in a report published on Saturday.
Lithuania supplies 50 percent of its own pork. When there was a surplus of pork on the EU market, it was too much on the Lithuanian market, so the price of pork fell below the cost price.
The crisis was triggered by the faster than expected recovery in China of its pork sector after the crisis caused by African swine fever and the opening of doors to the largest exporters of pork in Germany and Spain, Germany and Spain. The situation of pig farmers is also aggravated by the increase in the prices of feed grains and soybeans, energy resources, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to Algis Baravykas, director of the Lithuanian Pig Breeders Association, when the purchase prices of pigs drop every month, only between 67 and 80 cents are paid per kilogram of live weight.
Raising a pig weighing 110-115 kg costs around 130-140 EUR, and you only get 80-90 EUR for it, so the net loss from pig farms reaches 50 EUR for each pig sold. According to the director, the country’s pork sector, which sells about 19,000. pigs, may suffer about 15 million by the end of this year. loss of euros.
Statistics monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture also show a deterioration in price forecasts, according to the report.
During the week, the purchase price of pork carcasses in Lithuania decreased by 5.3 percent. Comparing the situation with the same period in 2020, they decreased by 11.4% in the year. (EU: almost 5.7%).
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