BUDAPEST, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Pork prices rose by 10 percent to 12 percent in the first nine months of the year, and the president of the Hungarian Meat Industry Association said further price increases were expected due to the African swine fever epidemic, local media reported on Monday.
Pork is a traditional element of Hungarian cuisine, and has been always cheaper than beef.
But according to the daily Nepszava, some market players do not exclude that the price of pork will sometimes exceed the price of beef.
"We will have to live with the price increase for another year or two, so far no one can predict when the epidemic will end," Tamas Eder, president of the Hungarian Meat Industry Association told Nepszava.
The rise in prices could be fueled by a 30-40 percent increase in the purchase price of live swine in the first three quarters of the year, the paper underlined.
