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08:00, August 15, 2007 |
China''s corporate pork price rose 11.5 percent in July, making an 85.8-percent increase on the same month last year, according to figures from the People''s Bank of China on Tuesday.
The corporate goods price, previously known as the wholesale price, refers to prices paid by domestic companies.
In a related development, July saw frozen pork rise 89.2 percent in price since July last year.
The soaring prices, due largely to short supply and mounting production costs, contributed significantly to China''s 33-month-high CPI, which rose 5.6 percent from July last year. The key inflation indicator was well above the government-set alarm level of three percent.
The government has taken measures to curb soaring pork prices.
A branch of the China Development Bank (CDB) in the northern Hebei Province is discussing financial support for the New Hope Group, a major pig breeder in the southwestern Sichuan Province, and Beijing Qianxihe Food Group, a key pork supplier in the capital, in a project to supply six million pigs annually for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
In order to minimize breeders'' risks, pig insurance has been set up to cover almost every natural risk for farmers, an official with the China Insurance Regulatory Commission said.
Chen Weisheng, deputy director of the Livestock Husbandry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an online interview on Tuesday, "The pig breeding industry is recovering."
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