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The Agriculture Council adopted the Presidency’s conclusions on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy by qualified majority, in Brussels on 17 March. The Hungarian Presidency thinks it is a remarkable success with special regard to the complex nature of the issue.

The market is less optimistic about the general financial situation than it was 12 months ago, although optimism remains higher than its lowest recorded point in 2008.

With enormous potential and a growing market, China will be able to raise its self-sufficiency rate in soybeans to 30 percent within three years, said Liu Denggao, vice-president of the China Soybean Industry Association.

The National Pork Producers Federation (FNP) has announced an agreement, which should be approved this week, on a single logo that will be used to identify French pork.

Despite the ministry of agriculture’s efforts to work with farmers so as to produce more piglets to meet the country’s demand for pork, there was still a shortfall of about 1.713 metric tonnes last year.

According to information from the Spanish “Consorcio del jamón Serrano”, developed based on statistics from the National Tax Administration, throughout 2010 Spanish exports of cured ham grew by 4,8 percent in volume, reaching 22.680 tons, and by 6,8 percent in value, reaching 196 million Euros.

The Dutch pig-farming sector is operating within a competitive European market, and production costs play an important role in the sector’s competitiveness. At €1.41 per kg of slaughter weight in 2009, the Netherlands’ production costs are fairly average compared with those in rival countries within Europe. However, Dutch pig farmers pay a relatively high price for the disposal of manure: 5% of the production costs.

Given moderate growth in domestic pork production and high domestic pork prices, China’s pork imports will continue rebounding strongly in 2011.

An outbreak of type O FMD was reported in Ust Imalko Settlement of the Ononsky Rayon of the Zabaikalsky Krai (18 kilometers from the Mongolian border) on 16 March. The settlement is located in the zone of vaccination against FMD established by the Russian Official Veterinary Services along the borders with China and Mongolia.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Finance jointly filed a new regulation on animal vaccination for prevention of epidemic diseases in 2011.

Thirty pigs, which have been transported to a slaughterhouse for slaughter from a pig farm in Penghu Island, were found with vesicular lesions.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union for 2009.

The Chilean Minister of Agriculture, José Antonio Galilea, announced on Monday the opening of the Chinese market to pork and prunes, and the opening of the Indian market to poultry and pork.

On 16.03.2011 at 23:00 the Chief State Veterinary Inspector of the Lomonosovsky Rayon, the Leningrad Oblast, was informed by the representative of OOO "Detstvo" that 8 of 43 pigs in the holding died.