English pork processors are seeking up to ￡15m of government support after China halted imports of meat, including trotters and pigs’ heads, from plants experiencing coronavirus outbreaks.
The industry estimates 1m pig carcasses have been affected by the suspension of some exports to the world’s largest pork market.
Chinese consumers relish parts of the pig, such as trotters and heads, that are unpopular in the UK, so selling them to China had helped maintain profitability in the UK’s ￡1.6bn pig sector.
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