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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.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, today welcomed the European Parliament's support for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and South Korea. An overwhelming majority of MEPs voted for the deal (465 MEPs in favour) meaning that from 1st July 2011 businesses from both sides will be able to trade more freely and easily than ever before. This is the first time that the European Parliament has endorsed a trade agreement and adopted accompanying trade legislation under the Lisbon Treaty procedures.

Data from China's Customs show that frozen pork exports recorded 110,000 tonnes in 2010, or an increase of 26.3% from the previous year.

China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced it had included pork, mutton, beef and their by-products onto the list of bulk agricultural products required for import reporting as of April 1.

The carbon footprint of Irish food products have been rated as amongst the best in the EU according to a major study just published by the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission.

South Korea will raise the volume limit of imported pork subject to its tariff quota system, in a bid to tame rising food costs.

Throughout 2010 South Africa imported a total of 26.255,68 tons of pork meat.

Faced with substantial losses as a result of escalating feed costs, pig farmers are launching a multi-million pound advertising campaign.

Japan has regained it foot-and-mouth disease free status. Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) approved this last week.

Pig numbers in the Czech Republic decreased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 1.84 million last year, the lowest figure since 1946, according to data of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU).

According to information from the Argentine National Office for the Control of Agricultural Trade (ONCCA), in 2009 5.286 tons of pork products were exported, reaching a value of 9,5 million dollars.

World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices.

Quality beef, lamb and pork is being exported to the West Indies by English producers for the first time in 20 years.

According to preliminary calculations of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, Ukraine will import about 100,000 tons of pork in 2011, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Volodymyr Ladyka has said.

According to a report published in the yearly register of the Office of Farming Policy (Opypa) carried out by Eduardo Errea and titled “Recent hog evolution and perspectives”, throughout 2010 the global supply of pork meat in Uruguay increased by 10%, reverting 2009’s trend and taking up a trend reminiscent of that of 2006 and 2007.

The Ministry of Rural Development said Tuesday that the decision to ease the rules came after consultations with the EU and Germany.