Page 39 of articles about production in Swine news

In 2015, the 20 main companies in the Russian pig sector accounted for almost 61% of the total industrial production.

Noticeably, the decline in the number of breeding sows reached a significant 14.8%, the ensuing census amounting to 814,400 animals.

In 2015, a total of 5.52 million pigs were slaughtered. This entails a rise by 8.9% with respect to 2014.

Regarding swine, in 2015 the Spanish abattoirs slaughtered 46,379,926 pigs, producing 3.89 million tonnes of pork.

Over the past 30 years, the European value chain—spanning from grains & oilseeds (G&O) via feed to pork—has developed into three main business models: specialisation, semi-integration and full integration.

Pork production rises over the projection period, with increases also supported by rising slaughter weights.

With an increase by 6.8% and a total census of 28,367,340 pig heads, Spain is the country with the highest pig census in the EU, beating Germany for the first time.

Spanish swine sector estimates for 2016 a growth of 3.5 percent for total slaughters and of 3.9 percent of pork production.

Germany (28.3 million swine, or 19% of the EU total) and Spain (26.6 million, or 18%) were by far the two Member States with the largest numbers in 2014.

The Brazilian pork production rose by 4.95% in 2015 in comparison with 2014, with a total production of 3,643 million tonnes.

In the first nine months of 2015 the exports fell by 8%.

In 2015, 55% of the Chilean pork was exported, so the Chilean industry has become established as a leader in meat exports.

According to the data published by the ABPA, it is expected that pork production in Brazil reaches 3,643 million tonnes this year.

During the first 9 months of this year, 34,186,648 pigs have been slaughtered in the Spanish abattoirs.

The quantity of pork produced amounted to 1.3 million tonnes and was thus down by a mere 0.2% year on year.

Following a strong recovery in 2014 and 2015, pigmeat production is expected to expand by less than 2 % by 2025 as compared with 2015.