In the second week of October, pig and pork prices fell somewhat.

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of 500 county-level rural markets and collection points, last week the national live hog price was 11.07 yuan/kg, down 0.5% week on week; the pork price in rural markets was 20.98 yuan/kg, down 0.4% week on week. According to monitoring and scheduling by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of 200 wholesale markets, last week the average wholesale price of pork nationwide was 15.92 yuan/kg, down 1.8% week on week and 15.5% lower year on year.