Updated Wednesday, September 5, 2007 0:00 am TWN, AP

China's pork prices to continue until next year

BEIJING - China’s pork prices, which have helped push inflation to a 10-year high, won’t come down significantly until the second quarter of next year, an official said Tuesday. Prices of pork, China’s favorite meat, have been driven up in part by an outbreak of blue ear pig disease, which sometimes kills pigs and causes sows to miscarry. The government has tried to contain the spread of the disease with a massive culling and vaccine campaign.

Bi Jingquan, a vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference that pork prices will likely remain volatile until May of next year when fresh supplies are expected to reach the market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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