Pig Producers Seek More Support
AUSTRALIA - Domestic pig producers say a lack of support from Australian processors is devastating the industry.
14 December 2007
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Aeger Kingma, a producer at Gunbower, in northern Victoria, says there has been a 50 per cent increase in cheap pork imports this year.
He says he has put off staff and is taking severe cost-cutting measures to stay afloat.
"We're down three-and-a-half staff members since the first of July, so we've stopped all essential maintenance, we dropped any expansion or refurbishment programs that we would normally do each year," he said.
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