Brussels, 07/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 7 February, the European Commission told members of the European Parliament's agriculture committee that the situation on the pork market seemed to be improving and that the previous week there had been a 10% price increase partly due to the start of EU private stockpiling aid. A director at DG Agriculture said that there had been demand for around 37,000 tonnes of pork in the first week but no figures were yet available for the second week. The EU stockpiling had resulted in stabilisation, explained the official. The farmers suffering the least in the crisis are those who grow their own crops to feed their pigs, explained the Commission representative. He bitterly commented that people were sawing off the branch they were sitting on because by not wanting genetically-modified crops in the EU, pork farmers are not able to import cheap feed from Latin America and the USA. (L.C./transl.fl)