Govt to help pig farmers with almost EUR 1.9m
Ljubljana - The government will help Slovenian pig farmers with EUR 1.87 million in financial aid, to be paid out on 23 December, to cope with falling prices of pork and pigs and rising prices of fodder, the Government Communication Office (UKOM) said on Tuesday.
The aim is to help over 580 farms whose main or only source of income is pig farming preserve their economic ability to continue with pig farming, UKOM said in a release.
The government decided to provide the aid as part of the 2021-2024 national development projects to help out after purchase prices of pork and pigs started plummeting in the EU and Slovenia in June.
The trend has not stopped yet, with the purchase prices staying below the same period last year and below a five-year average, while pig fodder prices are rising.
To qualify for aid, a pig farmer must meet several criteria regarding the number of pigs, liquidity of the farm or taxes, UKOM said.