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The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing, and Food (SAGARPA) invests almost 2 million dollars per year (about 24 million pesos) for the promotion of meat products in the international market.

Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said the projects provide for dynamic development of cattle, swine breeding and crop production. There is an ambitious task to increase grain output by 2015 up to 80 million tons a year, to increase the growing of seeds of oil-bearing crops up to 15 million tons and increase meat production to 4 million tons per year, he said.

Last week the OIE informed of the appearance of foot and mouth disease in Israel and Botswana.

Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Miroslav Naydenov met with farmers on a regular meeting, held in Plovdiv. Formation of the Advisory Board on livestock breeding to work on problems in the sector were discussed at the meeting Various representatives of the sector, experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and members of trade unions.

In February, the French Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, and the Minister of the Economy, Christine Lagarde, held a meeting with the principal players in the French banking industry with the objective of getting them to answer for the financial difficulties that the French livestock farming industry has been experiencing for several months.

The U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act (H.R. 525) on March 8. The measure now goes to the Senate.

The total number of pigs in the UK decreased by 0.9% since December 2009 to just under 4.4 million. The number of breeding pigs increased by 1.9% to 507 thousand in December 2010.

The full returns of the aid for private storage scheme that closed at the end of last month were made available today. The total mount of pork in the scheme is 131,752 tonnes at a maximum cost to the EU of € 58 m.

A parliamentary committee on Tuesday decided to put off its discussions on a ratification motion for South Korea's free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union until April, chief committee members said, as opposition members called for a full examination of the deal's possible impact on the domestic economy.

On 21-22 Feb. 2011, the Bureau of Veterinary of the Ministry of Agriculture held a national meeting on veterinary drug control in Xiamen, Fujian. It was stated at the meeting that the work on veterinary drug control should be guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development.

In 2009, the total antimicrobial sales have decreased of 13 % (159 tons) compared to 2008 and the sales have decreased of 19.3 % (255 tons) compared to 1999. The 2009 sales represent the lowest sales volume recorded during the 11 years period.

Levy rates to be charged to farmers, growers and others in the supply chain by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) for next financial year - from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 - have been approved by Ministers in Defra and the Devolved Administrations.

Quebec's hog farming sector has received approval from the province's ag and food marketing board regulator for its own form of supply management.

Total EU protein crop production (dried pulses, soybeans etc) currently occupies only 3% of the Union's arable land and supplies only 30% of the protein crops consumed as animal feed in the EU, with a trend over the past decade towards an increase in this deficit.

At €1.41 per kg of slaughter weight in 2009, the Netherlands' production costs are not much different from those in competing countries in Europe. Including costs of production rights, the production cost lies at €1.45 per kg, putting the Netherlands in a relatively unfavourable production cost position.

The swine and pork industry was hit the hardest by the FMD outbreaks with over 3.3 million head, or one-third of the total inventories, culled in order to contain the spread of the disease. All swine were vaccinated to stem the spread of the disease. Although the FMD crisis is expected to come to an end in mid March with the second round of vaccination now complete, Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) is predicting that the local swine industry won’t fully recover until 2014.