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The General Stockbreeding Coordination and the FIRA have signed a collaboration agreement for encouraging productivity, developing the productive potential and fomenting highly competitive production systems.

Pork production is expected to increase as producers respond to the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) by increasing farrowings and feeding hogs to heavier weights.

The major source of growth was the hog industry which expanded by 1.25 percent.

In Q1 2014 the number of slaughtered pigs decreased to 639 495 heads; i.e. by 1.7%, y-o-y.

The Statistics and Geography National Institute (INEGI) informed that the stockbreeding sector exports grew by 9.4% during the first trimester of 2014.

Continuing several years of expansion, production of pigmeat is expected to grow by 1.1 percent to a record level of 115.5 million tonnes in 2014.

Rabobank believes the outbreak of PEDv in the US, Mexico, Japan and South Korea will lead to a likely decline in global pork production in 2014.

FAS/Moscow has increased 2014 domestic pork production forecast to 2.5 MMT (i.e. 9 percent higher than previous estimates).

Malaysia’s pork production is forecast to remain relatively stable at about 235,000 tons in 2014.

Last year 4.8 million pigs were slaughtered and 416,000 tonnes of pig meat were produced.

Producers of pigmeat may apply for the aid in respect of animals slaughtered from 26 February 2014 until 25 May 2014.

Mexican beef and pork production forecasts are slightly higher in 2014.

The value of the final production value of swine reaches its maximum historic level: €6,273 million.

Post revised 2014 hog production to increase by 1.5 percent as a function of higher pork exports and a small increase in domestic demand.

Last year, "Prosciutto di Modena" (Modena ham) had an increase in production by 50% with respect to the previous year.