China's pork prices begin to fall with live pigs on the rise

时间：2007-09-17 01:32:21

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Beijing, September 16 - Chinese Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai said on Saturday that pork prices have been declining since August, as the supply of live pigs was on the rise.

 

The price of pork, the country's staple1 meat, had fallen to 18.98 yuan (2.53 U.S. dollars) per kilogram on September 5, down from 21.4 yuan (2.85 U.S. dollars) on August 9, representing a 11.3-percent drop within nearly a month, according to figures from the ministry2.

 

Live pigs in stock went up by 3.4 percent compared with the previous month, and pigs ready for sales reported a 9.9-percent increase year on year to reverse the declining trend recorded in July, according to Sun.

 

The number of sows in stock nationwide rose 3.8 percent in August from a month earlier, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than the figure for July, said the minister at a pig production conference held in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

 

The blue ear pig disease, which caused pork supply shortage and fuelled price hikes in recent months, was gradually brought under control within the affected3 area, the minister said.

 

He said cases of the outbreak of the blue ear pig disease were down by 52 percent in July from a month earlier, with pig deaths from the disease falling 36 percent over that for June.

 

The disease still lingers in 14 Chinese counties, according to previous figure.

 

Chinese officials repeatedly reassured4 the citizens that pork prices were unlikely to rise by a large margin5 in the long run, but admitted that short-term turbulence6 in the pork market could be "inevitable7".

 
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1 staple fGkze     
n.主要产物，常用品，主要要素，原料，订书钉，钩环；adj.主要的，重要的；vt.分类
参考例句：
  • Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
  • Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。
2 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
3 affected TzUzg0     
adj.不自然的，假装的
参考例句：
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
4 reassured ff7466d942d18e727fb4d5473e62a235     
adj.使消除疑虑的；使放心的v.再保证，恢复信心( reassure的过去式和过去分词)
参考例句：
  • The captain's confidence during the storm reassured the passengers. 在风暴中船长的信念使旅客们恢复了信心。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The doctor reassured the old lady. 医生叫那位老妇人放心。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 margin 67Mzp     
n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘
参考例句：
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
6 turbulence 8m9wZ     
n.喧嚣，狂暴，骚乱，湍流
参考例句：
  • The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.空气的激流导致飞机翻转。
  • The world advances amidst turbulence.世界在动荡中前进。
7 inevitable 5xcyq     
adj.不可避免的，必然发生的
参考例句：
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

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