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The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture has just published its report called "The pork sector in figures: major economic indicators in 2011."

A promotional campaign launched by the Council of Agriculture (COA) to stimulate sales of locally produced pork kicked off last week.

Canadian pork shipments during 2011 came in at a record 1.15 million tonnes.

Average farm-gate prices of pork had fallen to 14.60 yuan (US$2.30) per kilogram the week before last, a level below the 6:1 ratio of pork-to-grain prices it seeks to maintain as a minimum.

Global pork production in 2012 is revised upward 924,000 tons from the last forecast to 104.4 million tons.

Australian pork producers can now attain Free Range Certification under a newly developed, on-farm, free range standard, within the APIQ program.

Exports of Danish pork in 2011 increased by 5%.

Incentives and subsidies will be given to encourage pork production, in order to have a total of 85 million tons of meat.

Throughout 2011 the rate of self-sufficiency in pork in Germany was 115%, which represents an increase of 5% compared with 2010.

As regards exports, 2011 was an exceptional year. For the first time in its history, the EU exported more than 3 billion t of pig meat.

The number of pig farms will halve over the next ten years, the pig population will shrink and increases in scale will continue. Affordable solutions with regard to manure disposal must be implemented before 2015.

Prices increased for milk (9.2%), poultry (8.5%), cattle (8%), equines (7.2%), sheep and goats (5.2%) and pigs (4.4%) but decreased for eggs (-4.7%).

Exports of pork from Brazil increased by 6.93% in volume in March compared with March 2011, and 3.02% in value.

China delivered a list of five Mexican companies which are allowed to export pork to Chinese market.

MIFAFF announced that it would limit the initial 70,000 MT duty free tariff rate quota for fresh/frozen pork bellies announced for the period April-June to 20,000 MT.

Argentina sent an official notice allowing the river traffic of raw bovine offal and pork.