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The latest swine census data from the month of October shows a 5,3% decrease in Danish swine herds, in comparison with the same period last year, reaching its lowest level in 10 years with a total of just 12 million animals.

A new pilot plant research facility that opened at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Guelph Food Research Centre (GFRC) will help Canadian farmers and consumers benefit from advances in food safety technologies. The upgrades to the facility were funded by the $1.15 million investment under the Modernizing Federal Laboratories Initiative of the Government of Canada's Economic Action Plan.

A vaccine against porcine circovirus (PCV) has been successfully developed in Henan Province and granted the National Registration Certificate for New Veterinary Drug and the production approval document number as well as the approval to be marketed as a national-level new veterinary drug of the second category from the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).

The investment, as well as the mergers, made during the last 10 years have led to the creation of large groups of slaughterhouses, usually multi-species, that operate in different countries and often include processing activities. Danish Crown, a witness to the continuing changes in the European slaughterhouse sector and holder of the second place title in 2009, has been situated in first place after last October’s acquisition of the German company, D&S Fleisch.

The changes included in the National Action Programme (NAP) under the Nitrates Directive, agreed between the Government and the EU Commission are positive for both Irish farming and the environment.

The number of piglets exported during the first trimester of this year reached 1,6 million animals. This means that 100.000 more piglets were exported than in the third trimester of last year.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) stated that by 2015, the proportion of large-scale production of major animals would be raised by 10-15 percentage points and the number of standardized farms would account for 50% of the total of large-scale farms; productivity of those standardized large-scale farms would be improved; the animal waste would be treated to reach the standards for discharge or utilized as a resource; and the quality and safety of animal products would be substantially upgraded.

] India has inaugurated the food testing laboratory of the National Meat & Poultry Processing Board to ensure supply of quality and safe meat and poultry products.

Business Secretary Vince Cable today signed an agreement worth many millions of pounds for the UK economy that will allow the export of British breeding pigs to China, home to half of the world’s pig population. Agreement has also been reached on health certification to allow a start to be made on the export of UK pigmeat to China.

Hunan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said that Hunan Province exported 10 tons of frozen fresh pork to Malaysia, which valued $ 47,800. It is the first time that China export frozen fresh pork to this country.

The Russian Minister of Agriculture has presented the guidelines of the especial federal program for the eradication of African swine fever in Russian territory.