Livestock Live Hog Price Sees Slight Gain During Holiday Week Some analysts and the leadership at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) had expected pig prices to rise with the Labor Day holiday week, which ended yesterday. According to surveys from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), however, the national average price, which fluctuated a bit over the five-day holiday that began on 29 April, only rose by just RMB .07/kg ($.01/kg) through Wednesday. As the Labor Day celebrations are one of China’s three Golden Week holidays (the others are the Lunar New Year and National Day), market optimists had expected a renewed tourism boom would drive up meat consumption. China’s Tourism Academy recently st...
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