Research On Fluctuations In The Price Of Live Pigs

Infuenced by people’s eating habits, pork consumption has long occupied the highest proportion of meat consumption. As pork plays an increasingly important role in daily life, people concern more about the pork price. Nowadays, the price of pork is directly related to people’s daily lives, especially for pig farmers, whose income is closely associated with the pork price. However, the particular production processes of pork dertermines the volatility of the price. And in recent years, due to various market factors, the pig price show significantly abnormal fluctuations, which not only bring a lot of inconvenience to people’s lives, but also affect the healthy development of pig industry.Leling City, which is located in Shandong Province, was designated as pig farming county in2007. The farmer we choosed as the survey object can rasie about300pigs in a year, which can be related to the medium-scale farmers. Based on analysis of the relevant factors that infect this farmer’s income, we can conclude the pig faming status inthe region and also analyse the factors that influence the pig price.In this paper, we established a farmer, in Leling, Shandong Province, as the research object. Based on the field survey, we analyse the problems and the reasons causing the volatility of pig price in three different aspects:hog production, sales and national pig farming policy. And at last, we make suggestions to reduce the volatility of the pig price, ensure the interests of pig farmers and eventually promote the healthy development of the pig industry.