Alentejo pig: Industry complains support in Portugal “Alentejo Pig Day”.
The Alentejo pig Day is marked today in Montemor-o- New, with a commemorative conference of 25 years of ANCPA- National Association of Alentejo Pig Breeders, where debate the present and the future of the industry. The Minister of Agriculture, Luis Capoulas Santos, no event participate.
The production of Alentejo pig is high and the creators are seeking to capitalize race by selling to foreign markets, but consider that the gains depend heavily on the installation of manufacturing industries in Portugal. The Alentejo pig is a cultural heritage, gastronomic and genetic, with high value on preservation of the ecosystem and mounted in the settlement of populations to Interior.
It is estimated that there are in Portugal about 50.000 pig montanheira, in other words, set in extensive in assembled and fed on acorns. The economic crisis led to a decrease in production, due to the decrease of consumer purchasing power, but also flaws in the legislation on labeling have fostered sustainable consumption of such products.
O record high 7.000 sows, in 2007, He did not return to be achieved, more from 2013 we are witnessing a recovery of effective. In 2015, they were registered 6.500 nuts in Portugal, of which 4.000 the holdings of members of ANCPA.
"The main challenge of the creators is to make the most competitive farms on three main axes: differentiation – produce what is most valued in the market and other non produzem-, -by profitability of lower production costs, adjusting the actual fixed costs and endogenous resources (mounted) exploration -and efficiency -increase the technical performance, valuing each used resource ', says Peter Benedict, Secretary General of ANCPA- National Association of Alentejo Pig Breeders.
