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INTERPORC: In times of crisis, the pig sector generates economic and social sustainability

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"In times of crisis, the pig sector generates economic and social sustainability and works on environmental commitments", as highlighted by Alberto Herranz, director of the Spanish White Coated Pork Interprofessional (INTERPORC) during his intervention at the round table, Food and Sustainable Agriculture , organized by the newspaper Expansión.

Posted on Apr 05 ,00:20

INTERPORC: In times of crisis, the pig sector generates economic and social sustainability

Herranz, explained that the pig sector "it will always be and it has been here: in the 2008 crisis generating employment; in the COVID-19 pandemic by supplying food; in the banking crisis…". In addition, the pig sector, he has added, contributes to the development of a country: "we stimulate the economy, we invest, we contribute to the public coffers and we contribute to the development of infrastructures and services".

On the other hand, he referred to the European context which, as he explained, "offers us the opportunity to consolidate ourselves as the main food supplier in Europe". As explained by the director of INTERPORC, pig censuses in many countries are falling and, specifically, Germany is no longer the leader in pig production, a position that has come to be occupied by Spain.

Regarding meat consumption, "although in Europe it is falling, pork is the one product that has resisted the best". In addition , he has qualified, worldwide consumption is growing, and we must take advantage of the fact that the production model of the pig sector in Spain is an international reference "because it meets the most demanding requirements in the world in terms of food safety, traceability, welfare animal and environmental sustainability". In this sense, "we have to be there and we cannot lose position or opportunities".

For Herranz, the pork sector has all the tools to continue leading and has shown it "when Russia was closed to us, which we quickly diversified, and today we are growing in previously unthinkable countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, the USA , Chile or Mexico".

The pig sector, he concluded, "is prepared to face any geopolitical event, not without the logical suffering, but we are trained thanks precisely to that diversification policy that we have been developing for years".

Today, the pork sector exports more than 50% of what it produces, it is the first supplier of China and it is in more than 130 countries on five continents.

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