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Accompanied by Mexican producers and businessmen, the Secretary of Agriculture, Francisco Mayorga, assisted meetings with sector officials with the end of finalizing the processes involved in exporting Mexican pork to China.

Across all farm types, average farm business income was approximately 15% lower than in 2008/09 at £43,400. Although lower than the preceding two years, for many farm types average farm incomes for 2009/10 still represent an improvement on the historical levels seen earlier in the decade.

During the first semester of 2010 the Belgian pork meat exportations have reached a volume of 372.250 tons, 3,3% more than in the same period last year.

The Argentine Sub-secretary of Agriculture made public the estimated corn harvest and commented that all the conditions have come together to ensure the next harvest reaches 26 million tons, a record figure keeping in mind the surface sowed and the average yield. This harvest will be 15.5% higher than that of the 2009/10 campaign, which came in at 22.5 million tons.

Canadian hog inventories as of October 1 stood at 11.9 million head, down 0.8% from the same date in 2009. There were 7,035 hog farms as of October 1, down 8.3% from the same date one year earlier.

Exports of meat and meat products (exclusive of live animals) are of less importance to the total Danish exports. In 2009 the percentage was 5.5. It is a very strong drop from 1988 where meat and meat products represented 9.8 %.

The Belgian delegation informed the ministers about the organisation of a reflection day on “The pig meat sector towards 2020”, which will take place on 3 December 2010 in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels.

Russia plans to resume exporting flour on January 1, 2011, but a larger ban on exporting wheat, barley, rye and corn has been extended through next June, the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency reported Monday.

In the 2nd quarter of 2010, 136 593 tonnes of meat were produced and 585 478 thousand litres of milk were purchased; i.e. a decrease in both meat production (by 3.4 %) and milk collection (by 2.4 %) y-o-y. The production declined in all of main kinds of meat: in beef, pig meat, and poultry (by 1.4 %, 4.6 %, and 2.3 %, respectively).

Production response to increasing demand for pork in Vietnam has led to the emergence of more complex pork value chains that involve new and different types of actors. Recent developments in agri-food restructuring also bring modern retail outlets to prominence.

Recovering from a 12% drop in 2009, pork trade grows by 2.8% (122 tmt) annually in the next decade, reaching 5.52 mmt in 2019. Pork production increases in the next decade at a rate of 1.9% (1.85 mmt), reaching 115.46 mmt in 2019.

Officials from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) informed the representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply (MAPA) of the approval of the entrance of fresh pork produced in Santa Catarina into the country, beginning November 30, 2010.