"During the Food General Assembly in 2017, we were made to promise to produce 5% organic pork by 2022. We are now at 0.7%, and already in overproduction."
As evidenced by a senior representative of the pork sector in France, despite ambitious public objectives and generous financial support for organic farming, several major agricultural sectors are failing to develop in organic farming in France.
Among them, the pork sector.
50% of the volumes of AB labeled ham consumed in France are imported, mainly from Germany and Denmark.
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At issue: a demand for organic products almost exclusively focused on ham.
Unlike other markets, French consumers are much less greedy for organic bacon, shanks or pig's trotters.
The producer is therefore struggling to sell these parts of the pork organically.
This "carcass imbalance" makes the economic equation difficult to maintain for a certified AB breeder, whose cost price
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