The reason why the price of pork has risen so much is mainly due to the impact of African swine fever, a disease that is terminal in pigs, there is no medication available to cure it, and once a domestic pig is afflicted with the disease, there is a 100 percent lethality rate.

African swine fever is currently in China is a state of proliferation, just more than a year, has swept through the north and south of China, many provinces and cities have been affected by African swine fever, a lot of professional pig farms, have been impacted by a large number of domestic pigs died of disease death . The number of domestic pigs has decreased, but the market demand for pork has not changed, which will inevitably lead to an increase in the price of pork.

Taking my hometown as an example, the African swine fever has also spread to us, and our pig farms here have all closed down, and in just over a month's time, a large number of domestic pigs have died of the disease. In order to stop the spread of the epidemic, pork from outside is now banned from being sent to us,so the price of pork here has risen dramatically, last year's more than a dozen yuan a catty of pork, has now risen to 30 yuan. The price of pork will go up again if no pork is sent in.

As things stand now, if the African swine fever can't be solved, there will be fewer and fewer hogs, and fewer and fewer people raising hogs now, and the rise in pork prices is sure to continue.

In order to cope with the rise in pork prices, consumers have a number of options. One is not to eat pork, eat some other meat such as fish and chicken, etc., the price of these meat relative to pork, the price is much lower, and not affected by the epidemic, the meat is healthy. The second is to buy pork in advance to canton at home, which can prevent the price of pork continue to rise.