As of January 22, 2020, the price of pork continues to rise due to the problem of swine fever. The average profit for one pig is about 4,900, and for 50 pigs, the profit is about 240,000. However, it is not certain whether the price of pork will fall in a cycle, and the swine fever is still continuing, so the final income should be lower than this number.

Currently, the price of piglets just out of the nest on the market is about 800 yuan/head, and the cost of feed (full-price feed) when they grow to 220 kilograms is about 900 yuan/head. In other words, not counting the cost of medicine and assuming the survival rate is 100, the cost of one pig is approximately: 900 800 = 1700 yuan.

According to the gross pig market price of 20 yuan/jin, one pig sells for 220x20=4,400 yuan. The profit of 50 fattening pigs is: 50x (4400-1700) = 245,000 yuan. It can be seen that due to the current high domestic pork prices, the current profits from pig breeding are still very high.

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On the 14th, Good Neighbor Market in Jianye District, Nanjing. Citizen Liu Feng bought a pound of pork belly from the "Shuanghui Cold Fresh Meat" counter and paid 28 yuan. "If it goes up again, the price of pork will soon catch up with beef." Liu Feng said.

Meat is more expensive in supermarkets. The reporter walked into the "Cloud Kitchen Stop" on Jiangdong Street in Jialing, Nanjing. Pork front legs, pork belly, and ribs were all priced at more than 60 yuan/kg, and one kilogram of front leg meat sold for more than 80 yuan.

The main reason for the rise in meat prices is the decline in "production capacity". Data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that in August, the number of live pigs in 400 monitoring counties across the country dropped by 38.7% compared with the same period last year, and the number of fertile sows dropped by 37.4%.

Jiangsu has more people, less land, and less environmental capacity. Self-sufficiency in pigs is already insufficient, and now the contradiction between supply and demand is even more prominent. Shao Benjun, general manager of Jiangsu Wansheng Green Food Company in Funing County, told reporters that at this time last year, the number of slaughtered pigs reached more than 30,000. Recently, the pig farm has sold all the pigs, and currently there are only 2,500 breeding sows left.

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