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According to provisional results of the semi-annual livestock survey, the pig population decreased by just under 600,000, or 2.2%, from November 2015. That was the lowest figure in the last five years.

Many ministers expressed continued concern about the current market situation, and stressed the need to alleviate the difficult situation facing European farmers and help the sustainability of the most affected sectors.

Due to the high domestic price of corn and the uncertain economic situation, it’s expected that future growth in the pork and poultry sectors will slow to about 2 percent per year.

Three agreements on the conditions of marketing apples, pork and poultry will be signed today in the presence of the President of Poland and the President of the PRC.

This was due to a decline in pork and beef production. A marked increase was however recorded for poultry production.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2016 was 68.4 million head.

The total pig census in Spain (Iberian pig included) as of November 2015 was 28,367,335 heads: an increase by approximately 5% with respect to the census in May 2015.

Global demand for pigmeat is continuously growing and the EU was able to benefit from increased import demand in China in particular.

Exports of meat, especially pork, from the EU to China have also increased substantially over the past few months, and Hogan says the trend is expected to continue.

Pigmeat, one of the EU agri-food flagship products accounting for around 5% of the total agri-food value.

During the conversations, Mr. Alexander Tkachev and Mr. Han Changfu talked about the possibility of China adopting the regionalisation principle for the shipments of Russian pork.

World production of pigmeat in 2016 is forecast to decrease marginally, by 0.7 percent to 116.4 million tonnes.

The setting up of a framework agreement between the purcharsers (processors) and the producers' organisations or asociations will allow to rebalance the ratio of power.

With a total of 858,975 tonnes of pork, the Belgian exports have reached a new record in 2015, with an increase by 6.1% with respect to 2014.

The Institute of Veterinary Medicine (IMV) of Cuba acknowledged the Mexican Inspection Systems regarding the slaughtering of animals.