The Meat Association expects a 15-20 percent price increase

Meat prices may reach their peak by the end of the year. Specialists expect 15-20 percent price increase. According to the president of the Meat Association; a kilogram of live pig may cost up to 350 HUF this year.

Éder Tamás, the president of the Meat Association also said that the Hungarian meat industry gross output decreased by 1-2 percent last year. The revenues of the meat processing plants, were about 320 billion HUF. Exports last year increased significantly, by about 50 percent and now gives about 30 percent of the revenue – writes origo.