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Pannage and preferred sales canal for Turopolje pig

Turopolje pig belongs to the chategory ofthe most endangered pig breeds. It is a domestic Croatian, fatty-type, mediumsized and primitive pig breed. For centuries it was a significant breed for the local population, but due to the arrival of hybrid breeds, breeding has been reduced. Today, breed counts 21 boars and 177 sows, and the population hasn’t grown significantly over the past 10 years (HAPIH, 2020). The breed is keping entirely on family farms, 21 of them and that’s it mainly in the area of Zagreb county, Sisak-Moslavina county and Varaždin county. Turopolje pig is originally a pig adapted to the external environment in the biocenosis of floodplain forests of pedunculate oak and ash, beech and wetland meadows and continental climate and low-input technology with the use of natural resources of the environment in which production takes place. Therefore, the other reason for the decrease in its population, along with the breeding of more profitable breeds of pigs is the forest grazing ban by the state (pannage), which does not allow it for feetting pig. There was a need to examine the opinion of citizens with an online survey about the ban. The research conducted aimed to determine what the respondents think about unconditional keeping of pig in forests, does any restrictions should be abolished or not. Although there are no easily available products of Turopolje pig on the market it is important entrench the prefered canal for buying products from Turopolje pig and reasons why respondents prefer some particular sales channel. Most respondentsbelieve that bans should be left even they know that forests are natural habitat of that domestic pigs and potential consumers are the most interested to buy Turopolje pig products directly from producers in traditional markets. A stronger association of breeders and a better strategy of the state must keep the existing breeders, and gain new ones to keep Turopolje pigs, from which specific products can be obtained and than be segmented on the pork market.

Turopolje pig: pannage ; sales channel ; opinion of citizens

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