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This week has taken place the table annual price of pigs, cattle and sheep in the Market Cattle Mercamurcia
The meeting also served to commemorate the outstanding entrepreneurs of the sector
Take stock of last year and commemorate the work carried out by different entrepreneurs is the goal of the annual meeting of the officers of prices of pigs, cattle and sheep on the Marketplace Mercamurcia cattle, which took place this week has benefited from the presence of components of the tables, accompanied by numerous representatives of the livestock sector in the Region of Murcia.
Mermurcia manager and president of the Market Livestock, Martin Peña, made an assessment of livestock in the region, stressing that "we parted one year general farmer who started relatively well, but that a new appearance, half year, the specter of high grain prices has broken down.
"What we have so far been sporadic occurrences of this ghost, eventually becoming a permanent situation due to the increase in cereal consumption in emerging countries, primarily for livestock production and rising oil prices increases demand for cereal biofuel production. "
Peña said that the situation of losses on farms is leading to gradual declines the offer, enabling a new price equilibrium based on many farms are closed and others lower their production, which requires different times depending on the types cattle.
These conditions are already affecting mainly to sheep and cattle, which have higher production costs.
Sheep production has declined over the past 10 years by 50% and beef by 20%.
The pig, being a relatively cheap meat, is handling the crisis better and has even increased its production by 32% in the last 10 years, although the number of farms has been reduced by half due to low prices and therefore, the low profitability.
Despite these unfavorable prospects, I have great confidence in your entrepreneurial skills and I am convinced that you will know to overcome the crisis and that some of you will find business opportunities there.
After the meal, there was the delivery of commemorative plaques in recognition of the work in the Earned Marketplace Mercamurcia and therefore the contribution of the progress of the livestock, meat distribution and marketing in the Region of Murcia Pedro Marin Juarez Periquín Count ", wholesaler of beef, founder of the Real Mercamurcia and very popular and loved person, Francisco Barceló Barceló" The pellet, pig farmer and founder of the Market, and Francisco Bernal Rubio, belonging to the Market Swine and develops his professional work between the world of livestock and feed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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