Friday 11th December 2020
Money intended for farmers only
Rewe increases pork prices
For days, farmers across Germany have been pushing for an increase in sales prices for pork in Germany's supermarkets. After Lidl, the Rewe company is now giving in and planning to raise prices. But farmers are not satisfied with that. You are calling for a fundamental change.
The retail group Rewe with the supermarket chains Rewe and Penny wants to pay minimum prices to pig farmers in Germany with immediate effect. They should correspond to "the market level before the outbreak of African swine fever," said Rewe board member Hans-Jürgen Moog. The group wants to make a short-term contribution to ending the acute crisis of German pig farmers.
Rewe follows with the move of the supermarket chain Lidl, which had raised the prices for ten pork products on Thursday. The additional income should go directly to the farmers who deliver the meat. Rewe board member Moog stated: "We are counting on our preliminary stages to pass the additional money through to the farmers and piglet producers. Where possible, we will conclude contractual arrangements to ensure this."
The Rewe Group is committed to long-term and sustainable strengthening of domestic agriculture. To this end, the company has drawn up a position paper through which there are talks with the German Farmers' Association and the Land Creates Liaison Movement.
Claim paper presented to supermarket chains
Farmers all over Germany had demanded higher prices for their products in the past few days with tractor blockades from discounter central warehouses. The German Farmers' Association demanded on Wednesday that cooperation between agriculture and trade required "new framework conditions and fundamental change". The claim paper was addressed to Aldi, Lidl, Edeka and Rewe.
Once again, the farmers' association complained about the concentrated buying power of the food retail trade. It prevents adequate contractual conditions and margins in the supply chain.
The price of pork has slumped mainly because of the outbreak of African swine fever among wild boars – many countries no longer buy pork from Germany, there is an oversupply.
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