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More than half of the total meat consumption consists of pig meat products.

Elke Anklam, Director of JRC-IHCP and Huailin Li, President of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, at the signing of the MoU on 6 June.

The Delegates of the 176 OIE Members adopted the 5th Strategic Plan which sets a roadmap for OIE global missions in animal health and welfare over the years 2011-2015.

The amount of pork products exported from Canada is expected to decline come calendar year 2011.

Providing alternative livelihood to the rural communities to alleviate their living condition was the primary goal of the Department of Agriculture- Regional Field Unit 10 (DA-RFU 10) in collaboration with Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI) Region 10 and Local Government Unit (LGU) of Plaridel.

A total of 375 pig producers have been surveyed to date by veterinary surgeons as part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Health programme. Almost all have given their vets permission to record whether or not four important diseases are present on their units.

International prices of key food staples have dropped during the first five months of 2010 according to the latest edition of FAO's biannual Food Outlook report. Despite recent drops in international food prices, the cost of the average food basket is 69 percent higher than six years ago.

For every euro spent on alimentation, 2.3 cents are spent on ecological products, as is shown by data from the “biomonitor”, corresponding to 2009, that have just been published. The Dutch consumer spent a total of € 646.4 million last year on ecological products, while in 2008 the total was € 583 million.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Emergency Conservation Program funds are being made available to farmers and ranchers in 14 states to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters in 2010.

Based on the results of statistical survey on livestock and animal production in 2009, carried out by National Institute of Statistics, on December 1, 2009, as compared to the same date of 2008, cattle, pigs livestock and poultry registered falls, while sheep and goats livestock increased.

Transmissible Gastroenteritis, a viral disease that affects only swine, has been identified on one farm with two sites located in South Central Manitoba.

The Minister of Agriculture, Henrik Høegh, and the Minister of the Interior and Health, Bertel Haarder, have announced the start of a joint plan of action to minimize antimicrobial resistance.

The pig supply situation in Thailand remains worrisome as hot weather and lack of good-quality water continues to cripple production flow. Drought in many areas have caused pig farmers to secure water supply from external sources.

The Environmental Protection Agency published a new 18-page guidance document it says "provides clarification of some regulatory requirements" for CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) on national discharge permits.

In 2009 the number of swine herds fell by 13%, from a total of 5,800 in 2008 to 5,000 in 2009.

Rural Development Trust (RDT) an NGO founded by late Father Vicenç Ferrer, has come out with the piggery scheme to help supplement their meagre daily income.