Finnie speaks up for pigs in Brussels

9 December 1999



Finnie speaks up for pigs in Brussels

SCOTTISH rural affairs minister Ross Finnie is making another trip to Brussels to make a special case for the pig sector in the face of mounting evidence of a serious crisis in the industry.

The minister has been told that producers are now losing £14 a head and that the industry had seen an 18% decline since June.

Don Curry, chairman of the Meat and Livestock Commission, told the minister that “future of the Scottish pig industry is at stake”.

• College closure rocks pig industry, FWi, 22 January, 1999
• Pig farmers scorn for Lord Sewel, FWi, 02 September, 1998
• Scots pig giant goes under, FWi, 02 September, 1998
  
• The Herald 09/12/99 page 27