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Costs due to ASF outbreaks exceeded 1,200 million rubles, that’s 12.6 times more than in 2015.

The United States retail market for organic products is valued at more than $43 billion—and consumer demand for organic products is booming.

Despite the considerable progress made in the last trilogues, no final agreement could be reached before the end of the year.

The Council acknowledges the importance of a well-functioning food supply chain and expresses concern about the vulnerability of farmers in this context, despite multiple efforts to improve their situation.

The Committee therefore recommended the refusal of the granting of the marketing authorisations and the withdrawal of the existing marketing authorisations for veterinary medicinal products containing zinc oxide.

The projection for world cereal production in 2016 was raised to 2 577 million tonnes, 1.7 percent above the 2015 output. Record output levels are forecast for rice and maize.

The ocurence of new cases of ASF in wild boars in parts of Latvia and Poland has led the Commission to extend restrictions in these areas. In contrast, in certain areas of Latvia and Lithuania the situation in domestic pigs has improved.

The exports of Spanish pork and processed pork products recorded, between January and August, an invoincing of €2,885 million: +15,3% in comparison with the same period in 2015.

In 2016, the livestock and fowl production for slaughter increased by 5%, reaching more than 14 million tonnes in liveweight.

Pigmeat production is now expected to expand only marginally (by less than 1.3 % by 2026 compared to its 2016 high levels).

An outbreak was confirmed on a commercial pig farm with a total of 5.165 susceptible animals.

The new work team will strengthen the competitiveness of the pig sector and will monitor that the imports fulfil the same requirements imposed on the national producers.

Between January and October 2016, pig production for slaughter in the Russian farms has grown by 13.5% in terms of liveweight.

Hog prices will continue to reflect very large supplies of slaughter-ready animals. Average fourth -quarter live equivalent prices for 51-52 percent lean animals are expected to average $34 -$36 per cwt, almost 22 percent below a year ago.

Romanian swine inventories have been on a continuous downward trend since 2010, falling by 8 percent in five years.