This year the Pork Meat roast is shipped to the final consumer between 50 and 100 pesos above what it cost in 2021according to the shops consulted.
Free Daily made a tour of various points in the city where they are used to selling the White meat for this date. In some businesses the pound costs between 500 and 550 pesosbut it costs 650 pesos if the pork is prepared on call Chinese box.
“The sale is more or less and the pound costs 550 pesos. Last year it cost 475 pesos and then it went up,” said María Mejía, who together with Yloni Bautista Polo cook at the Kelvin suckling pig on Sarasota Ave.
Clients arrived and left this establishment highlighting that the price is more expensive for the inflationary theme.
“The quality is very good, but the meat is more expensive than last year due to inflation. It hardly affects me because I’m the only one who eats meat because my family is religious”, expressed Charo Miky, a client of the establishment.
On the other hand, Kilvio José Martínez said that every year they usually buy pork around these dates and at home they will make the Christmas Eve dinner in the city.
“The price is a little high, a little, compared to the last year”, he indicated.
Also, Free Daily spoke with Aquiles Ramos, supervisor of Titi Cerdo in Mirador Sur, said that the pound of meat cooked in a Chinese box will be shipped at 650 pesos.
“Last year we had a pound at 550 pesos, this year it went to 650 pesos, this because of the pork shortage that there is in the country”, said Ramos.
He assured that the establishment is already prepared for serve the public in a general sense, either wholesale or retail.
For the area of South Lookout Park the stalls have the roasted pork at 500 pesos per pound and plan to sell at least 200 pigs.
“The pound of pork has increased, last year the kilogram of pork was bought between 90 and 110 maximum pesos, but now it costs between 200 and 250 pesos. For this reason, you have to sell a pound for 500 pesos,” said Jairo Nolasco, owner of a stall on Anacaona avenue in the National District.
He said that the pigs they buy to roast and sell are raised on farms, so they ensure the meat quality.
“We are from five in the morning ready to sell the pigs. We have more than 200 pigs to sell them tomorrow,” he explained.
In several of the main supermarkets in the capital, a pound of roast pork costs between 340 pesos a pound and 580 pesos.
Agriculture
Recently, the Department of agriculture He assured that the authorities guarantee the supply of pork for Christmas through local production and the import permits granted for these purposes.
african swine fever
The African swine fever (PPA) was detected in May 2021 in the Dominican Republic. Since that date, the authorities have slaughtered more than 45,200 pigs to control ASF in areas where the disease has been detected.
As a result of this situation, the dominican government It has granted import permits to bring the meat demanded by industries and consumers in the country.
The PPP and the inflation created by the international scene have had an impact on the increase in the prices of Pork Meat.
