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Transports of Danish pigs ready for slaughtering at foreign slaughterhouses decreased by 1/3 in 2010. New figures from the Danish Council for Agriculture & Food show that transports out of Denmark decreased by 800.000 compared to 1.1 million pigs the previous year.

As of January 1, 2011, inventories of hogs were up slightly on a year-over-year basis. Hog producers reported 11.9 million hogs, up 0.6% and the first increase on a year-over-year basis since April 1, 2006.

The Food Standards Agency is commissioning four pieces of research that will help gather evidence to modernise official controls on meat. The work forms part of the Future Meat Controls Research Programme. The driving force behind this programme is to improve public health by adopting a more risk- and evidence-based approach to meat production.

Throughout 2010 the consumption of pork in Uruguay increased by 4,6%, fixing itself at 9 kg per inhabitant, although this is still below the record reached in 2007 (9,6 kg).

South Korea will nearly double the volume of tariff-free pork it will allow into the country to 110,000 tonnes as a response to the FMD outbreak that has crippled domestic production.

USDA report “Agricultural Projections to 2020” projects, that the price pressure on the livestock sector will lead to declines in production for both the red meat and poultry through 2012.

Throughout 2010 the exportation of pig meat from the EU reached 685.319 tons, which represents a 12.5% increase when compared with 2009 exports. A 182% increase of exports to Belarus stands out, as well as a 20% increase in exports to Japan. The main destinations of European pig meat are Russia with 30.1% of the total exported (809.148 tons), Hong Kong with 15,7% of the total, and Japan and china with 8,3% and 7,9% of the total.

The European Commission has suspended the emergency storage aid it has offered to pigmeat producers since late January.

Yesterday, at the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, the Member States adopted a statement on the dioxin incident which took place in Germany late 2010-early 2011.

Croatia is a large pork importer. In 2010, pork imports reached $128 million (43,200 MT), mostly from the EU and Chile. Currently, the US is a minor supplier to the Croatian market. As an EU-candidate country, pork exports to Croatia must meet EU standards.

EU agriculture ministers threw their weight behind calls for mandatory origin labelling of pork, lamb and poultry, with milk and dairy products to follow later on.

Chicken meat consumption had grown 13 times in the Czech Republic to 24.8 kilograms per person per year in 2009, beef consumption, in contrast, has been falling in the long run and pork consumption stagnates, but still pork is the most popular kind of meat, Zdenek Kobes of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said.

Throughout 2010, the residents of the city of Lima consumed 4,062 kg of pork, registering a 60% increase in pork consumption with respect to 2000, when consumption was set at 2.526 kg per year per inhabitant, according to information from the Peruvian Minister of Agriculture (MINAG).

Total commercial meat production in Germany reached a record value of 8.0 million tonnes in 2010. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that is an increase of 302,000 tonnes or 3.9% on the previous year.

December statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) confirm that pork export value posted the second-best year on record at $4.78 billion, falling just 2 percent short of the 2008 high and besting 2009 by more than 10 percent. Total volume was 1.918 million metric tons – an increase of 3 percent over the previous year.

According to declarations made by Norberto Espinosa, director of the Porcine Production Group (GRUPOR), under the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Cuba will increase its production of swine feed, going from 42 thousand tons this year to 250 thousand in 2015, in order to increase meat production.