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Pork production in India is limited, representing only 7% of the country’s animal protein sources. Production is concentrated mainly in the northeastern corner of the country and consists primarily of backyard and informal sector producers.

Throughout the month of March, Brazilian pork exportations decreased by 11,60% with respect to the same month last year, going from 50,111 tons to 44,299 tons. In terms of value, the decrease was 1.70%, going from 119.50 million dollars in March 2010 to 117.47 million in March of this year.

Throughout 2010 the number of pigs slaughtered in commercial slaughterhouses reached 5,577,579 animals, which represents a slight increase of approximately 0.7% with respect to the year before, during which a total of de 5,537,389 animals were slaughtered.

Cambodia is threatened by a shortage of pork as pig farmers are leaving the business due to high input cost.

A commercial pig farm was opened at Veiwawa in Navua by the Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Primary Industries, Joketani Cokanasiga. In his opening speech, Mr. Cokanasiga said that pig production in rural areas is wide spread and offer great opportunity as an income generation activity, enhance food security and contribute towards poverty alleviation.

In a meeting held last Monday, April 11th in Beijing, the Chinese Minister of the Quality, Inspection and Quarantine , Zhi Shuping, informed the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Wagner Rossi, of the initial approval of three Brazilian meat processing plants to export pork to China. The approval comes only 5 months after the Chinese mission to Brazil to inspect 13 slaughterhouses.

In signing the Peru – Mexico Comercial Integration Agreement, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda from México and his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Quevedo Flores, agreed on the mutual importance of the agreement which will reactivate the commercial Exchange of complementary products, in a setting where the sectors small and midsized business can potentially participate and grow.

As the price of pork rises, Koreans are giving up their beloved pork belly to seek alternative cuts and sources of protein.

Due to the occurrence of a new outbreak of ASF in Murmansk Oblast (Russia), Belarus Ministry of Agriculture has introduced a temporary ban on the import of pork from Murmansk Oblast.

The FAO Food Price Index has dropped for the first time after eight months of continuous price spikes. The Index averaged 230 points in March 2011, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March of last year.

The National Pork Producers Council praised the Obama administration for today concluding a free trade agreement with Colombia, paving the way for congressional approval of the deal later this year.

South Korea will reopen all 85 of its livestock markets today, almost four months after they were closed at the end of November last year when FMD surfaced.

The European Parliament would support a Commission proposal to lift the ban on the use of meat-and-bonemeal in pig and poultry feed but only if the strictest testing and surveillance mechanisms are enforced, according to a draft report.

This week the arrival in China of a Brazilian mission headed by the Director of the Animal Product Inspection Department of the Department of Agriculture, Luiz Carlos Oliveira, is expected. The objective of the mission is to continue negotiations for the sale of Brazilian pork in China.