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EU agri-food exports reached a record value of almost €12.7 billion in March 2017, the highest monthly export value seen over the last five years.

France showed an increase in its production by 1% in 2016.

UK exports of fresh and frozen pork during March were 3% down on the year while imports rose by a massive 47% on the back of continuing tight domestic supplies.

The ICEX Spain Export and Investments has published a report drafted by the Economy and Commerce Office of the Embassy of Spain in Athens regarding the Cypriot meat market.

Goods such as coffee (65.3%), flowers (25.5%), bananas (25%), palm oil (36.1%) and frozen beef (357.3%), among others, helped to encourage exports in the third month of 2017.

The SENASICA is pursuing negotiations with the health authorities of Russia, Thailand and Vietnam, among other countries.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the creation of an undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a recognition of the ever-increasing importance of international trade to American agriculture.

For the first quarter, pork exports were up 17 percent in volume (627,647 mt) and 22 percent in value ($1.58 billion).

In the first quarter of 2017, the output of pork was 14.68 million tons, a year-on-year growth of 0.2 percent.

Delegations highlighted the importance of a multidisciplinary and internationally coordinated approach to fight the disease, and the Commission confirmed its support for those member states concerned.

In 2016, the agriculture, livestock and fishing production exceeded 220 million tonnes: an increase by 5.3% with respect to 2015.

In the first trimester of 2017, pig production has increased by more than 5%, mainly in the regions of Pskov, Chelyabinsk, Tver and Voronezh, and in the territory of Stavropol.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories and stop the resulting downward price spiral.

Despite the two consecutive months with a negative balance in the volume of fresh pork shippings, they remain positive so far this year.

In 2015 pork became the second most consumed meat in Australia, surpassing for the first time beef.