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During the first quarter of 2020, the EU27 agri-food trade was up 4.7% from Q1 of 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic developing.

After strong growth in the 1960s and 1970s, per capita meat consumption stabilized in the 1980s and has been declining since the early 1990s.

Pig population continues to decline: -2.3% compared with the previous year.

In the period January - April 2020, pork exports to China more than doubled.

For the first time China accounted for more than half of UK fresh and frozen pork exports in April. Overall export was up, and import prices remained higher than last year.

During the first three months of 2020, the volume of French pork exports to the EU and third countries increased.

Pork consumption has increased by more than 40% over the last 5 years.

Chinese customs halted pork imports from the German company, Tönnies, where hundreds of slaughterhouse workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Tönnies administration together with the Gütersloh district authorities decided on Wednesday to temporarily close the Rheda meat processing plant.

U.S. pork processing capacity utilization still reduced following COVID-19-related disruptions, sow and boar slaughter up from last year, April exports strong.

Hong Kong joins the Ivory Coast in receiving its first shipment of pork from Colombia.