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Pig meat exports have reached 654,067 tonnes during the first trimester of this year, and this entails a decrease by 9.1% with respect to the same period in 2013.

During last April, the pig meat exports increased by 19.66% in terms of volume and by 19.74% in terms of value with respect to April 2013.

Pork exports were just under 18,200 tonnes for March, 13% up on the same month last year and the highest monthly figure since 1998.

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 entrance of tariff-free frozen pork from Chile to the EU increases by 1,000 tonnes.

Four Costa Rican companies have been authorised to export to Japan because they fulfil the health requirements demanded by the Japanese market.

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.

Weather conditions in various countries and political tensions in the Black Sea region have made food markets more volatile.

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.

Denmark has now become the first country that has been allowed to export cooked pork products, including the sausage.

The measures should cover the animals delivered to the slaughterhouse as from 17 February 2014, the date of adoption of the Lithuanian preventive measures.

The Ministry of Agriculture has created the Hazards Analysis Division.