Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) Taiwan’s pork consumption, so far this year, has been largely unchanged from the same period of last year, despite the government’s decision to allow imports of U.S. pork containing the feed additive ractopamine, Premier Su Tseng-chang said Thursday.

The excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus from swine slurry decreased in 2020, due to the reduction in the number of finishing and breeding pigs.

NPA chief executive Zoe Davies has called for action to help ease the backlog on farms, including weekend kills, as the situation on pig farms nears ‘crisis point’.

In the last decade, the number of pig farms in Germany has decreased by 47%.

As compensation for the costs incurred by castration with anesthesia, the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture and the Livestock and Meat Producers' Association recommend a surcharge of at least four euros per castrated male piglet.

To date, no Act lays down the minimum requirements necessary for the uniform application of the article requiring farms to receive animal health visits.

Brexit has hit the British meat industry this week, with tonnes of meat stuck rotting in transit at European ports as a result of post-Brexit paperwork, PoliticsHome has reported.

Despite the recovery of the pig population, China continues to increase its pork imports, reaching 4 million tonnes, double the imports from 2019.

Official data from the National Bureau of statistics has revealed that China’s pork output for 2020 recorded only marginal losses, after experiencing a massive decline in 2019 following an outbreak of African Swine Fever which decimated the country’s pig herd.

Exports of Canadian pork and pork products saw a significant increase in the first 10 months of 2020.

Any drop in demand from China and Hong Kong may turn into a disaster for the Brazilian pork industry.

For the first time, Quebec pork producers may have to export piglets and slaughter hogs to the United States.

As we already know, the main function of the respiratory system is to capture oxygen from the air and eliminate the CO2 created by tissue catabolism. However, in the pig it is also responsible for carrying out the thermoregulation process, since the pig does not have developed sweat glands.

China is expanding, high hog prices will do that. China’s hog price will contract in 2021 but when it does China's lower pork price will be increasing per capita consumption of 1.4 billion Chinese. This will slow price decline and in turn, keep Chinese pork imports up through 2021.

African swine fever (ASF) has devastated the entire pig industry in China, and their breeding herd has suffered incredible losses due to the disease.

In the January-August 2020 period, Spanish exports of pork have grown by 19.0% in volume and 28.6% in value, compared to the same period last year.

Jim Long, the world industry analyst  analyzes the live pig prices and pork in the U.S. and China and the consequences of ASF in Germany.

From the beginning of 2020/21 MY as of November 9, 2020 grain export from Ukraine reached 17.35 million tons.

This is evidenced by the data of the Information and Analytical Portal of the Agricultural Complex of Ukraine.

The global value of pork exports has increased by 29.9% since 2015 and reached US$32.9 billion in 2019.

In response to the second wave of coronavirus, countries are re-introducing full quarantine. If the same events are waiting for Ukraine, how can it affect the meat market is analyzed by analysts of Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders .