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As regards exports, 2011 was an exceptional year. For the first time in its history, the EU exported more than 3 billion t of pig meat.

The number of pig farms will halve over the next ten years, the pig population will shrink and increases in scale will continue. Affordable solutions with regard to manure disposal must be implemented before 2015.

Prices increased for milk (9.2%), poultry (8.5%), cattle (8%), equines (7.2%), sheep and goats (5.2%) and pigs (4.4%) but decreased for eggs (-4.7%).

Exports of pork from Brazil increased by 6.93% in volume in March compared with March 2011, and 3.02% in value.

China delivered a list of five Mexican companies which are allowed to export pork to Chinese market.

MIFAFF announced that it would limit the initial 70,000 MT duty free tariff rate quota for fresh/frozen pork bellies announced for the period April-June to 20,000 MT.

Argentina sent an official notice allowing the river traffic of raw bovine offal and pork.

Despite the decline of 1.7% in per capita consumption, pork is still the favorite.

Exports of UK livestock products rose to £2.325* billion in 2011, an increase of 22% from 2010.

Exports of pork increased over the last year and amounted to 995,319 tons.

The new regulation provides a specific control of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs by different operators in the feed chain.

According to the Rosstat, live-weight pork production increased 3.6% in 2011 over 2010.

Last year imports of pork from Russia increased by 2.5% to around 657,000 tons.

The objective of this rule is to improve the price and supply reporting services of AMS in order to encourage competition in the marketplace for wholesale pork products by increasing the amount of information available to participants.