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Éric Grenon

Associate Researcher at the MEI

Éric Grenon, économiste agricole, M.Sc., MBA., a étudié à la Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation (FSAA) de 1983 à 1990 où il a obtenu un baccalauréat en agroéconomie et une maîtrise en économie rurale. Il détient une maîtrise en administration des affaires de l’École des Hautes études commerciales de Montréal (1997).

March 14, 2007

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The Stabilization Insurance program and the crisis in the pork industry

In the last few months, serious setbacks afflicting Quebec’s pork industry have been making headlines: the closing of slaughterhouses and processing plants, layoffs, and financial losses. A number of causes have been used to explain this crisis, in particular the rise of the Canadian dollar, industry cycles, high sickness levels, a lack of competitiveness among slaughterhouses, added costs to meet environmental standards, rigidities in collective marketing, and so on. A moratorium decreed by the provincial government on increases in pork production from 2002 to 2005 also stalled the rapid growth that the industry had experienced for more than a decade and stymied numerous investment projects.

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Éric Grenon

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