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Prices for piglets fell even as prices for fattening pigs rose.

In 2011 Mexico exported more than 48 thousand tons of pork products.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points, slightly down compared with November. The decline was mainly driven by pig meat, whose price dropped by 2.2 percent

Pork production should be up 1 percent in 2011 and prices for hog feeders are forecast to increase 17 percent.

Russia’s accession to the WTO cleared a major hurdle when the WTO Working Party on its accession approved, ad referendum on 10 November 2011.

China uses 105 million tons of corn a year for animal feed, with another 60 million to 70 million tons used in the processing sector for such products as starch, citric acid and ethanol.

Of the 1 billion pigs being raised in the world, about half are in China, where pork consumption is increasing as the Chinese economy develops. As a result, pork prices are rising, a trend that is impacting the world economy.

VEVA proposes the voluntary reduction of sows by 20%, going from 500.000 actual sows to 400.000.

The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) under the Ministry of Commerce has stopped announcing recommended pork prices after finding price fluctuations are volatile and supplies are still in shortage.

The frozen pork-bellies futures contract, a staple of Chicago’s commodity markets for a half century, was unceremoniously killed after traders abandoned it.

China will release some of its pork reserves onto the market at an "appropriate time" to help stabilise prices of the country's staple meat, an important driver of inflation, state media reported on Saturday.