Hungarian Pig Sector: Actual Problems and Prospects for the Future Development

Abstract

Over the past decades, the Hungarian pig sector has undergone remarkable changes. In the 1980s, the Hungarian pig sector was the main pork product provider of the Eastern bloc, but after the political and economic transition, the sector lost its main markets and the size of pig herds decreased radically. The economic changes have brought negative impacts for all the players of the pork supply chain: the producers have been mostly affected, but slaughterhouses and the processing industry had to face new circumstances as well. The goal of this paper is to review the present situation and the current problems of the Hungarian pig-producing sector and to draw up the main prospects and favourable directions of the future by the findings of the SWOT analysis of the Hungarian pig sector and based on the proposed directions of the government’s new pork strategy. As the pig sector is an important pillar of the Hungarian agriculture and the rural communities, it is worth to summarize the sector’s present market position and to set those opportunities, which could give advantages for Hungary in the international competition. The paper concluded that the most prominent problems of the pig sector are caused by the economic and structural problems of the sector, based on the problem tree and sector’s SWOT analysis the main external and internal factors were detected, and the results were compared to some measures of the government’s pork strategy.

Identification of pig farm practices in the central Andean region of Colombia

“…Johanna, Trujillo-Díaz; et al a) The first factor is how subsidies, credit programs, tax reductions, incentives, and economic benefits have been created in the GSI by governments, such as Hungary (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016) and the US (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016), to promote swine production and export. b) The second factor includes breeding and fattening infrastructure of farms limited by land availability (Selva, 2005).…”

“…China (Chen & Yu, 2018). The US (Selva, 2005), Spain (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016;Selva, 2005), Denmark, Germany, and France, among other countries, have low production costs for high-quality meat (Hoste, 2017;Schramm & Spiller, 2003;Schulze et al, 2007;Selva, 2005), and high-tech processes (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016;Selva, 2005). However, the feeding cost is one of the highest items in GSI; for instance, Brazil has high-scale corn and soy farming, which is the primary raw material for producing pig feed (Dias et al, 2015), allowing low prices in the swine industry (SI), but not necessarily with high-quality (Machado et al, 2016;Selva, 2005;Trienekens & Wognum, 2013).…”

“…The main pig producers are located in the departments of Antioquia, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Meta, and Valle del Cauca (DANE, 2016), with 4.1 million pigs slaughtered in 2017 (representing 711 million USD) (DANE, 2018b). The main importing departments are Bolivar, Cundinamarca, and Valle del Cauca (Sistema Estadístico de Comercio Exterior, n.d.) due to lack of protectionist laws or subsidies to encourage national production (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016). Furthermore, the import cost of pork carcass is more competitive than the national sale price.…”

“…The CSI is very attractive for farmers, because the pig cycle is around 296 days (figure 2), i.e., shorter than the bovine cycle. However, pork production has different biosafety, traceability (Dunay & Vinkler-Rajcsányi, 2016;Qian et al, 2017), and animal welfare standards (Decreto 2113(Decreto , 2017Dias et al, 2015;Martins et al, 2017). Nonetheless, these standards generate limitations for some companies, and give rise to a competitive advantage for businesses.…”

Content of protein and polyunsaturated fatty acids of the omega-3 and omega-6 families in the blood of repair heifers under different energetic value of diets

“…Ефективність виробництва якісної свинини обумовлена впливом багатьох чинників [1-4, 6, 8-15, 22], серед яких суттєве значення має питання створення свиней нових спеціалізованих ліній, типів, порід та їх раціональне використання [17,18,20,21,23,[25][26][27][28][29]. Ця робота передбачає поряд з оптимізацією умов утримання та годівлі свиней різних статево-вікових груп пошук і використання ефективних методів оцінки племінної цінності, розробку критеріїв відбору високопродуктивних тварин та їх інтенсивне використання [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”