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Due to the occurrence of a new outbreak of ASF in Murmansk Oblast (Russia), Belarus Ministry of Agriculture has introduced a temporary ban on the import of pork from Murmansk Oblast.

The National Pork Producers Council praised the Obama administration for today concluding a free trade agreement with Colombia, paving the way for congressional approval of the deal later this year.

South Korea will reopen all 85 of its livestock markets today, almost four months after they were closed at the end of November last year when FMD surfaced.

This week the arrival in China of a Brazilian mission headed by the Director of the Animal Product Inspection Department of the Department of Agriculture, Luiz Carlos Oliveira, is expected. The objective of the mission is to continue negotiations for the sale of Brazilian pork in China.

The Obama administration, hoping to prevent recalls, consumer illnesses and even deaths from contaminated meat, will unveil a proposal Tuesday to force companies to delay sending beef, pork and poultry to grocery stores while government inspectors complete tests.

Pork production forecast is virtually unchanged despite a downward revision in the slaughter forecast. Production continues to be hindered by higher than expected prices generated a downward revision (1.3 percent) in consumption. Similarly robust prices are also expected to depress imports which are revised lower to the 2010 level.

China’s pork exports in 2011 are forecast at 330,000 MT (CWE), a 19 percent increase from 278,000 MT in the previous year, fueled by strong demands in China’s export markets. Hong Kong, Japan, and Kyrgyzstan are the top three traditional Chinese export markets accounting for nearly 80 percent of China’s total shipments.

The National Pork Producers Federation (FNP) has announced an agreement, which should be approved this week, on a single logo that will be used to identify French pork.

Given moderate growth in domestic pork production and high domestic pork prices, China’s pork imports will continue rebounding strongly in 2011.

Despite the ministry of agriculture’s efforts to work with farmers so as to produce more piglets to meet the country’s demand for pork, there was still a shortfall of about 1.713 metric tonnes last year.

The Chilean Minister of Agriculture, José Antonio Galilea, announced on Monday the opening of the Chinese market to pork and prunes, and the opening of the Indian market to poultry and pork.

China’s pig crop production in 2011 is forecasts at nearly 668 million head, a half percent increase from estimated 665 million head in 2010. Given higher slaughter rate to total inventory, pork production in 2011 is forecast to rise nearly three percent to 52.5 MMT from an estimated 51 MMT in the previous year.

The European Court of Auditors audited the EU Commission’s supervision of the EU system of veterinary checks carried out at border inspection posts (BIPs) for meat imports.

The authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have closed 16 pig farms and sealed 134 tonnes of pork products after an illegal drug was reportedly used to produce lean meat, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

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.

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.