Historically, over 95% of the swine inventor of China was scattered in small family holdings, with over 130 million rural households raising pigs in the early 2000s, according to the Agricultural Census. However, the industry has changed rapidly in recent…
Hog and pork prices have suffered large fluctuations in the first 6 months of the year, reaching minimums below 12 RMB/kg (1.76 EUR) in March, before a rapid increase, more than doubling, by early July. Chinese authorities have applied different…
Falling live hog and pork prices, together with record high feed prices, have eroded profits for farmers and pork producers in the past months. Most estimates of loss per head in the industry are at 35-50 USD per head, with 10-12 million…
China reported an increase of 31.9% in Q1 pork output YoY, following an increase in the slaughter of pigs, as farmers tried to avoid the risk of disease during the first months of 2021 and sent pigs to slaughter early….
Tight supply market conditions have kept pork prices soaring in 2020 with small fluctuations due to the Chinese Government efforts to release frozen reserves and control food price inflation, but still well above previous years’ levels. From January to late…
The China Merchandise Reserve Management Centre announced the release 10,000 tonnes of pork from the national reserves to auction them on August 21st. Chinese Ministry of Commerce, in coordination with the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of…
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