DYNAMICS OF COSTS, INCOMES AND PROFIT IN ROMANIAN PORK

• Main Authors: CORNELIA PETROMAN, I. PETROMAN, H. SĂRĂNDAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Agroprint Timisoara 2007-10-01
• Series: Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies
• Subjects: pork; dynamics; costs; incomes; profit
• Online Access: http://spasb.ro/index.php/spasb/article/view/1559

High prices in piglets from performing lines, as well as the high profit resulted fromcommercialising piglets (27%) can be justified by the very low offer compared to thedemand. In Romania, piglets from performing synthetic lines are being producedonly on meat hog industrial complexes, units that have low numbers of pigletsavailable for sale. The low profit of economic actors (carcass marketers, secondaryprocessors, marketers of cut and packed pork) is justified by the fact that in generalthese kinds of activities are performed at least two by the same economic actor, thusresulting in a larger profit for both activities. An economic actor that markets hogcarcasses also does the cutting and packing of a certain amount of pork he/she haspurchased. These economic actors are usually pork suppliers for hyper- and supermarkets.There are also pork economic actors that perform only one kind of activity, such as butcheries, where the only activity is cutting and retail marketing of pork,but this kind of activity is low and in permanent competition with that of supermarkets. These economic actors are small pork production units, similar to family farms.