The effects of swine fever: Catalan farmers lose 19.62 euros per live pig

African swine fever (ASF) has severely harmed the primary sector. Unió de Pagesos (UP) warned this Wednesday that Catalan pig farmers registered, during the first half of this year, losses of 16 euro cents per kilogram for each pig they raise. This means that sector professionals lose an average of 19.62 euros per live animal, a drop of 156% compared to the same period last year. The agricultural organization, which presented these figures at a press conference in Lleida, states that the sector has a negative economic margin for the first time in four years, and attributes these losses mainly to the effect of the appearance of African swine fever (ASF) at the end of last year.