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The number of hogs and pigs on U.S. farms was down 2% from June 2020.

The provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP.

Pig slaughter in Germany was down 4.2% in the first quarter of 2021.

The proposal will allow the use of insect proteins and non-ruminant proteins (collagen and gelatin) in poultry and swine feed.

This arrangement would serve to minimize trade impacts to the Canadian swine sector while protecting the swine populations in both countries.

The volume of pork on the Chinese market has continued to increase recently. In May, the slaughter volume increased 44% year-on-year.

The Portal brings together information from more than 200 databases on crops, climate, and rural credit, as well as information on the fisheries industry and geo-referenced images of rural Brazil.

The Commission’s Animal Welfare Platform recommends the establishment of a voluntary labelling scheme at EU-level.

OIE and ASEAN will further expand regional animal disease control programmes to include African swine fever and classical swine fever.

The province of Batangas is the first in the country to be cleared of African swine fever.

A review of the effectiveness of sampling procedures, monitoring period, and minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zones for FMD.

The pork trade balance was again positive in 2020, both in volume and value. The trade surplus was US$ 4.03 million, while in 2019 there was a trade deficit of US$ 47.3 million.