Logo 16 Sep 2021

No piggy parachute

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Pig farmers will be reckoning with a brutal, volatile market for the foreseeable future. 
That was the message from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) on Tuesday, as they politely shot down a proposal to institute a minimum purchase price for live pigs from Xu Dequan – a Natio...