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Pork has remained the most favored meat, with 34 kilograms per resident consumed last year.

Even though Finland produces pork in surplus and exports it to other countries, pork still featured prominently among imports due to its low price.

Russia should produce 2.02 MMT of pork in 2012, 2.4 percent higher than 2011, resulting from improved conditions for swine rearing.

On October 21, 2011, the Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) an announcement revoking the retaliatory import tariffs on 99 U.S. agricultural and industrial products, including pork.

Poultry meat production increased 16.8% in the year, eggs 19% and pork 3%.

Alcala said that the Department of Agriculture has set aside P180M initial budget for the establishment of five ‘triple A’ slaughterhouses to enable pork producers and processors to supply the local market quality products and take advantage of the international market.

August was another outstanding month for U.S. pork and beef exports, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Pork exports reached their highest monthly volume of the year at 186,068 metric tons, and the second-highest value total of all time at $531.2 million.

In September, just as with the annual cumulate, an increase has been noted in pork sent to Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Argentina.

Vietnam would modernise its livestock sector by shifting from household-based to industrial farms in a move to boost quantity and quality of livestock products.

Pork production in 2012 is forecast to jump four percent to 51.3 MMT from an estimated three percent decline in the previous year.

The Commission has now published for the first time a short term outlook for main agricultural commodity markets. Meat production, boosted by good exports in 2010, is expected to continue the trend in 2011 and then decrease slightly in 2012.

China has banned the production, sale and use of clenbuterol tablets, a medicine used to treat bronchial asthma that has also been illegally used by farmers to make their pigs leaner.