In the Sarthois village of Théligny, a herd of nearly 300 sows has been populating a farm previously occupied by goats and horses for a few weeks.
The particularity of this project carried out in joint venture by the king of ham Fleury Michon and the slaughterer Vallégrain?
Test and refine the economic model of organic pig farming, still very difficult to find.
In question: an additional cost of more than 100% for the producer compared to conventional breeding.
Thus, AB pork still weighs only 3 to 5% of French consumption, more than half as much as in other departments.
This delay illustrates the difficulty of an essential sector of French agriculture which, despite a recent improvement, is struggling to emerge from the spiral of low prices.
For two years and after several crises, the upstream sector has experienced a real breath due to the explosion in demand from China, whose herd has been decimated by an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF).
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