Pork Actually Cheaper Than Tomatoes?

TAIPEI - Believe it or not, the price of pork has now gone lower than that of tomatoes.
calendar icon 19 November 2008
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The China Post reports that farmers can justify the rise in prices for produce, while hog farm operators don’t understand why they have to lose money to supply pork. As a matter of fact, 600 grams of pork steak fetch NT$70, lower than the cost of producing it. The same weight of tomato is sold at NT$78 at detail.

“We don’t know why corn and soybean powder are getting more expensive, though the surge in prices has long ceased,“ one hog farmer said yesterday. A hog is auctioned at NT$6,000 per 100 kilograms. “We are losing money,“ the hog farmer complained.

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