Investigation on pig slaughtering market in Liuzhou, Guangxi

Introduction: in recent years, the price of pork in Liuzhou vegetable market has been stable at about 10 yuan per kilogram, which is more than 1 yuan lower than other cities in Guangxi; the rate of pig slaughter has also been controlled within 20%, which is also lower than other cities in Guangxi The citizens are quite satisfied with this Why is Liuzhou pork so "reassuring" and "affordable"? Reporters recently learned in an interview in Liuzhou that this is due to the city's implementation of a fixed-point slaughtering method in which multiple economic components compete Pork is one of the most important varieties in the "vegetable basket" of citizens On January 1, 1998, the regulations on the management of pig slaughtering was officially implemented, marking that the management of livestock and poultry slaughtering in China has entered the legal track In accordance with the principle of "designated slaughtering, centralized quarantine, unified tax payment and decentralized operation", the designated slaughtering system for pigs has been implemented throughout the country It is strictly prohibited to slaughter pigs without permission and indiscriminately, so as to ensure that citizens can eat "assured meat" However, with the implementation of this system, there are two major problems in some cities, namely, the high price of meat and the recovery of the rate of private slaughter The reason is that the system of designated slaughtering in these cities is too simple, and a single administrative order "kills" many slaughterhouses Due to the exclusive operation of several designated slaughterhouses preserved by administrative means, "the emperor's daughter does not worry about marriage", and the lack of competition in pig slaughtering cost, service quality and other aspects, the price of pork is on the high side, and "assured meat" has become "high price meat" Some butchers forget their interests and take advantage of the opportunity to illegally sell "slaughtered meat", which leads to the rise of "slaughtered rate", and the pork in the "vegetable basket" is also hard to bear When implementing the system of designated slaughter of live pigs in Liuzhou City, the market competition mechanism was introduced to break the exclusive monopoly pattern, forming a unified and open market system with orderly competition, so that the people could not only enjoy "assured meat" in the competition, but also benefit from the price As early as September 1995, Liuzhou began to implement the designated slaughter system for live pigs According to the market layout, they adopted the method of combining administrative measures with market economy, and approved 8 designated slaughterhouses below Among them, there are state-owned, joint venture and private enterprises, which do not engage in exclusive monopoly The government manages it macroscopically, focuses on quarantine and taxation, and requires enterprises to carry out fair competition in operation, which has produced good results In order to win over customers and stabilize the source of pigs, every slaughterhouse tries to improve the service quality and improve the business environment In the past, the slaughterhouse was the "God" and it was common to create difficulties for customers at will It was also common to take and demand customers' pork at random Customers dared not be angry Now, the customer has become the "God" and "the customer's difficulties are our difficulties" There has been a fundamental change in the working attitude of the abattoir Some slaughterhouses set up lounges to provide customers with tea free of charge Some have prepared vehicles to take customers back and forth free of charge When the working capital of some specialized breeding households is in difficulty, the slaughterhouse will send carbon in the snow and lend money to help them through the difficulties Some customers had a car accident on the way to deliver pigs When a phone call came, the slaughterhouse sent a car to the scene of the accident overnight to extend a helping hand to the customers These moving examples are unimaginable in the past when "a knife" was monopolized It is understood that in the past two years, the rolling funds used by each slaughterhouse to support and help customers to develop their businesses have been more than 200000 yuan, and more than 1 million yuan With such "emotional investment", the number of pigs slaughtered in various slaughterhouses has increased greatly The slaughtering volume of the bridge slaughterhouse alone has increased from more than 20 pigs slaughtered every day to more than 500 pigs slaughtered today At the same time, in order to attract customers, each slaughterhouse reduces the slaughtering cost one after another, and actively avoids many expenses such as storage fee, pigskin processing fee and so on According to the comprehensive calculation, each pig reduces the expenses by more than 10 yuan, making the charges more reasonable Due to the reduction of slaughtering cost, the price of pork on the market is naturally relatively cheap According to the statistics of Liuzhou veterinary health and quarantine station, after the implementation of the designated slaughter system, the number of pigs slaughtered in Liuzhou increased from 380000 in 1995 to 800000 in 2000, and the designated slaughter rate has been consolidated at more than 80%.