Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion.
Mr. Tim Cullinan:
I will address Deputy Fitzmaurice's questions first. I did mention Bord Bia. Trade missions will be under way before the end of April. Bord Bia is going on a trade mission to the US and to Mexico, which is welcome. As I said already, there is a demand for pig meat in Mexico. That is important. We always need to be striving for new markets. We were the sector that paved the way in China for many years. How this crisis came about was that the events in China in 2018 and 2019, with ASF, created a massive demand for pig meat all over the world. Thus, the price increased. What happened was that obviously, there was expansion all over the world as well. The Chinese are back producing a lot of pig meat themselves, and that market is more difficult at the moment.
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