The Council of Agriculture stated that it has coordinated with the Central Animal Production Association to order 3,000 tons of pork from Europe to stabilize the production, sales and prices of hogs.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Report from Taipei] Affected by feed prices driven by raw materials, domestic hog auction prices have recently exceeded 95 yuan per kilogram. We will order 3,000 tons of pork from Europe to stabilize the production, sales and price of hogs.

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Recently, international pork prices have also fluctuated sharply. The prices of pork carcasses in Denmark, Spain and other countries with large imports to my country have risen sharply compared with last year. The average price of pork carcasses in the EU as a whole has risen by about 31%. Compared with an increase of about 20%, the increase is relatively stable.

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Jiang Wenquan, deputy director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Council of Agriculture, said that in response to the high prices of international raw materials and imported pork, and the domestic pig farms affected by the epidemic, etc., they have placed an order to purchase 3,000 tons of pork from Europe. For thousands of pigs, we will also strengthen the guidance of pig farms to introduce new facilities to improve the pig breeding rate.