If the price hike of pork is only caused by African swine fever, it will be solved.

This wave of pork price increases, if only caused by "African swine fever", is not so complicated to solve, but it is not.

Since the outbreak of the African swine plague last summer, China has killed about 1000000 pigs in the first half of this year. According to the average weight of pig slaughtered, 120KG is about 120 thousand tons. However, industry analysis, including the Agricultural Bank of Australia’s "Year-end Outlook Report", generally estimates that the current swine fever will affect China’s pork production decline by 30..full text