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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the creation of an undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a recognition of the ever-increasing importance of international trade to American agriculture.

The EC has published Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/767 amending the Annex to Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in Poland.

In 2016, the agriculture, livestock and fishing production exceeded 220 million tonnes: an increase by 5.3% with respect to 2015.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories and stop the resulting downward price spiral.

In the first trimester of 2017, pig production has increased by more than 5%, mainly in the regions of Pskov, Chelyabinsk, Tver and Voronezh, and in the territory of Stavropol.

Canada has confirmed three new outbreaks of PEDs in Manitoba pig farms.

Despite the two consecutive months with a negative balance in the volume of fresh pork shippings, they remain positive so far this year.

This committee will allow the organisations that are a part of it to work in an integrated way to optimise the attention towards health problems that affect pig production in the department.

Divided in three groups, six veterinarians will visit the states Paraná, Goiás, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Mato Grosso.

In 2015 pork became the second most consumed meat in Australia, surpassing for the first time beef.

This is the first occurrence of PRRS in the country. The focus has been located on a commercial farm in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas.

The national production of feed grew, reaching 25.8 million tonnes.

All the information gathered through this exercise will feed into the Communication on the future of the CAP that the Commission will present by the end of the year.

Meat importers will be allowed to bring in 7-million kilos of pork to stabilize the price in the market.

Efforts will be made to accelerate the development of cold chain logistics, according to a plan issued by the State Council on April 21.

In Italy, only the autonomous province of Bolzano is free of Aujesky’s disease.