Thus, if in the middle of last month, industrial pig farms offered their products to meat processing plants at an average of 64 lei/kg, now the price has increased to an average of 70 lei/kg. This was reported to Logos Press correspondent by the Patronate of Meat Processing Enterprises PÎIPC.
According to PÎIPC, in April, the administrators of the member companies predicted this price increase of pork(https://logos-pres.md/ru/statya/nasha-czel-sohranit-svoi-predpriyatiya-partnerov-syrevikov-i-klientov-potrebitelej/).
Meanwhile, the leadership of the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food since March (after the detection of ASF and the subsequent destruction of about 119 thousand diseased pigs on the two largest pig farms in the country) to this day continues to claim that there is no shortage of pork on the Moldovan market, and there are no preconditions for an increase in pork prices. The representatives of the PÎIPC patronate consider these statements to be untrue.
Thus, the general director of Carmez Processing S.R.L. Rodion Melnik claims that out of the weekly required 100-120 tons of fresh chilled pork, the company is able to buy at the moment only about half of this raw material from suppliers. The main reason is the situational (not stipulated by long-term contracts) rise in the price of raw materials. The enterprise still manages to maintain production volumes of finished products due to intensive use of imported frozen pork purchased earlier within the duty-free Euroquota-2025. However, the company is running out of its stocks. And the euro quota itself has now been fully utilized by importers.
Given the rise in the price of local chilled pork, Carmez Processing S.R.L., according to the words of its manager, was forced in May to increase the prices for the range of sausages containing pork by an average of 5-7%. The PÎIPC patronate notes that some other companies in the sector have also had to raise the prices of their products of certain assortment items to a greater or lesser extent.
However, once the stocks of imported frozen pork are fully utilized at meat processing plants (which is a maximum of one or two months), prices for the whole range of meat products containing pork will increase to a much greater extent.
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