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The French Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, during his visit to China, has signed a cooperation program concerning food safety together with his Chinese counterpart Minister ZHI Shuping.

The total budget of the programmes, the large majority of which will run for a period of three years, is € 71,94 million, of which the EU contributes € 35,97 million.

Commercial hog slaughter totaled 113.2 million head, 2 percent higher than 2011.

Temporary restrictions are imposed on the supply of animal products for human consumption to the Customs Union market as today, April 18th 2013.

The Board of EEC took a decision to exclude fresh, chilled or refrigerated pork, poultry meat and edible byproducts from the List of goods originated and imported from developing and least developed nations.

With pig slaughtering declining by over 1m head during 2012 (from 20.4m to 18.9m), it was no surprise to see a decline in exports of Danish pig meat over the year.

It appears the seasonal trends in the pork market in the Northern Hemisphere are reversing with strong export demand and high prices in the second half of the year.

Japan is the twelfth destination of the Spanish pork exports, with more than 28,000 tons, and it is placed in the eighth place in terms of the value.

Total pig numbers are now forecast to finish the year at 2.25 million head.

Russia reduces the list of Canadian suppliers to 14 pork processing plants, 3 beef processing plants and one plant producing both beef and pork products.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2013 was 65.9 million head.

The Chinese government has started to purchase frozen pork and add it to reserves to stabilize prices.

The department will impede the importation into Belarus of live pigs, pork and processed products, among others, coming from Northern Ossetia and Krasnodar.

For the exportation of pigs for reproductive purposes, the protocol signed by these two countries establishes that the animals must come from farms registered with the ICA.

Corn growers intend to plant 97.3 million acres . If realized, this will represent the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1936.

Ukraine from March 20, 2013 introduced a temporary ban on imports of pork from Brazil due to systemic establishment of a lack of correspondence of safety indicators of pork.