Japanese meat market is far from the bottom (2)
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Last Update: 2002-02-01
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: due to the negative effects of the widespread panic of mad cow disease, more and more Japanese consumers are turning from beef to pork and chicken in their choice of eating meat, which is psychologically far away from beef However, from the perspective of market supply and demand and consumption habits, it seems that the optimistic expectation is too high In a short time, the demand for replacing beef has brought the consumption of pork and chicken to increase and the sales price to rise However, in a short time, the market consumption of pork and chicken will stagnate and the market will go down This is because the market price of chicken and pork has been at a reasonable low price for a long time When consumers accustomed to low price encounter high price pork and chicken beyond the allowable range, they often refuse to consume their products from the market immediately From the market changes of pork and chicken, we can know the role of price changes In January this year, it is still the tail of the new year's consumption season In Japanese supermarkets, the sales of pork and chicken have shown a good trend: the sales volume has increased by about 20% compared with the same period in 2001 It can be seen that the role of pork and chicken replacing beef consumption is still being played However, compared with the more popular pork and chicken market in December 2001, the "Scene" is obviously a lot quieter The decline of pork market is the most noticeable and the largest Among the price of pork in the meat market of the central wholesale market in Tokyo, the price of living and high-grade (weighted average) pork per kilogram as a trading index was 418 yen on January 29 Compared with the price of pork of the same specification at the end of 2001, it has dropped by 25%, and a quarter of its value has been cut off; the market price of chicken is also weak, far less strong and marketable than that at the end of 2001 and the beginning of this year The price of domestic chicken leg meat in Japan is only 700 yen per kilogram, which is 8% lower than the highest value in peak season Due to the effect of pork instead of beef consumption in the market, Japan has expanded the import of pork from abroad, but when the domestic pork consumption in Japan comes from expansion to contraction, the market pork inventory shows a sense of too large Japan's Ministry of Finance published statistics on pork imports in December 2001 on January 29, saying that the number of pork imports in December 2001 was 20% higher than that in December 2000 In the summer, the Japanese pork stock doubled compared with the same period in the summer of 2000 In November 2001, Japan's pork stock was 30% more than that of the same period last year In the Japanese market, a large number of Chinese chicken and Thai chicken used for food reprocessing have also been imported, and the boned chicken leg meat and chicken leg meat, which are popular at Christmas, are also in excessive supply at the end of the year Japanese consumers are once again worried about the safety of beef consumption due to the camouflage and poor transplanting of imported beef and Japanese domestic beef So the need for pork and chicken substitutes is less obvious The camouflage problem of "snow printed food" also brings about the sales problem of meat products processed and produced by the company For example, in many sales stores, the market of ham is suspected to be the truth of its ingredients In some stores, the "snow printed ham" will be removed from the meat shops, and it will be expanded in many stores Although it will not reduce the overall consumption of meat processing products, it is certain that it will be adversely affected Meat processing enterprises are now aiming at the golden week of tourism in May to present the meat processing products at the mid Yuan Festival, so it is possible to increase the number of frozen meat imported from abroad The credit panic of Japanese meat processing enterprises and the negative impact of Japan's high unemployment rate, people are still worried about the further expansion of the consumer downturn The decline of pork and chicken in the market is also a "bubble" burst What may happen in this way is that the future trend of the whole meat industry in Japan will drag down the price of good pork and chicken, which is likely to break a certain level Japan's meat market is far from reaching its bottom, and it will take time to recover to a better price level (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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