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Hong Kong’s pork prices likely to rise as pig supplies from mainland China drop sharply due to swine fever outbreak

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Pork prices in Hong Kong are set to go up with one local Michelin-starred restaurant cutting back on one of its dishes as the number of mainland Chinese pig farms halting supplies to the city rose to 20 on Wednesday. As the African swine fever outbreak swept the mainland, the number of pigs imported from across the border fell 51 per cent – from 4,326 on December 20 to 2,135 on December 26 – according to figures from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD). Chong Chung-...

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