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Exports of pork are expected to increase by 20 % over the next year.

With the local and global demand for pork increasing, Botswana can have a stake in its production, according to a study released this week.

Russia’s government adopted a list of essential food goods to have retail price limits. The text of the document was published in the Rossiyskaya daily on Monday.

Members of a House Agriculture subcommittee expressed deep concern with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposed rule on livestock and poultry contracts and marketing arrangements, a regulation that would limit pork producers' options in selling pigs to processors.

Retail prices for meat and eggs rose for the sixth consecutive month in June, reflecting the contraction of the nation’s livestock herds.

In 2008, 25 Member States submitted information on the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria to the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority. In addition, two countries that were not European Union Member States provided information for the report. Assisted by its contractor, the Technical University of Denmark, the European Food Safety Authority analysed all the data, the results of which are published in this Community Summary Report.

Russia may export 60 times more pork and poultry by 2020, even as it seeks to build its food security by reducing dependence on imported meat, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said Tuesday.

Dominican Republic ’s Agriculture Ministry and pork producers will adopt the joint measures needed to declare the country free of Classic Swine Fever so that meat can be exported, especially to the United States.

In the last year in the EU-27, a total of 22.6 million tons of pigmeat was produced. Germany takes first place with 24% of the total, followed by Spain (14%), France (9%), Poland (7%), Denmark (7%), Italy (7%) y Holland (6%).

Holland and Denmark are the 2 countries that stand out with the best technical performance for mothers, higher productivity, prolificacy, and better reproductive rhythms, while Italy and the UK come in the extreme opposite with the worst results in productivity and prolificacy. Spain is situated in an intermediate position with respect to productivity and prolificacy, while they obtain good results in reproduction.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has issued a new regulation calling for stricter meat import inspections.

This week the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda, and the Russian Minister of Agriculture, Elena Skrinnik, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with hopes of increasing the commercial exchange of agricultural products between the two nations.

The ban on beef and pork shipments in Miyazaki Prefecture put in place because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease may be lifted this month because no new cases have been found since the slaughter of infected animals was completed last week.

Vietnam plans to increase its pig production by 18% to 32 million heads by 2013 through expansion of pig farming in the northern and central parts of the country, according to Nguyen Thanh Son, Deputy Director General of the Husbandry Department.