李永强

李永强对来访者讲：但现在，我在提高产量。

But right now , I am increasing production , Mr Li tells visitors .

中国市场每年宰杀5亿头猪，李永强称自己只是个小角色。

Mr Li calls himself a small potato in a Chinese market that raises and slaughters about 500m pigs a year .

以李永强的养猪场为例，8月以来，一袋饲料的价格上涨了30%。

On MR li 's farm , for example , the cost of a bag of feed has gone up by30 per cent since august .

在2006年因饲料价格不断上涨和猪肉价格低迷而减产后，去年底，致命的“蓝耳”病爆发，又使李永强的猪场损失了六分之一的牲畜。

After cutting production in 2006 because of rising feed costs and low pork prices , Mr Li late last year lost another one-sixth of his pigs in an outbreak of the deadly " blue ear " disease .

李永强的问题也出现在了中国各地成千上万家小农场，导致一场全国性的猪肉及其它主要食品短缺，使得8月份的通胀率升至6.5%的11年高点。

Mr Li 's problems were replicated on tens of thousands of small farms throughout China , causing a national shortage of pork and other staple foods and pushing inflation to an 11-year high of 6.5 per cent in August .