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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.

One of the issues discussed by Sergey Dankvert and the Minister of the Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Nikolay Prisyazhnyk during the talks concerned the spread of ASF virus across the territory of the Russian Federation. The Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor informed the Ukrainian side of the measures taken by the Federal Service with the aim to control ASF in the RF.

The Guelph based George Morris Centre estimates Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is costing the Canadian swine industry a minimum of 130 million dollars per year.

Pig meat production went down by 3,9 % year-on-year to 66187 tonnes. Numbers of slaughtered pigs decreased to 753.333 heads, i.e. by 4,6 % year-on-year, but numbers of slaughtered sows were by 13,7 % higher than in the 3rd quarter of the previous year. Deficit of foreign trade in pig meat exceeded 40 thousand tonnes. Import of live pigs went down year-on-year by 26,5 % (6.100 tonnes in total), whereas export rose by 81,2 % to 3.951 tonnes.

The Fédération des producteurs de porcs du Québec (FPPQ) is proud to announce the release of its own sustainable development indicators for pork production, a first for agriculture in Quebec.