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Foodservice closures and logistical challenges have not thwarted pigmeat demand. Heavy carcass weights increased production.

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.

Figures suggest that the production of pigmeat in the EU was not immediately affected by the containment measures for the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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

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.

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

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