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Pigmeat production is expected to increase further in 2015, driven by low feed prices and a slightly higher breeding sows herd.

The Final Pig Production in Spain in 2014 has ben estimated as some €6M, entailing 14% of the Final Agricultural Production and 37% of the Final Livestock Production.

As of January 1, 2015, the country’s total swine inventory reached almost 12.00 million heads. This was 1.68 percent higher than last year’s inventory of 11.80 million heads.

The strongest fall in imports during 2014 has been pig meat (41% in volume terms).

Pigmeat production is expected to grow to 4.3 Mt (carcass weight equivalent) in 2024.

Mexico became one of the first countries in the world to be declared free of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) by the World Organisation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties [OIE] in French).

The statistical data of the Ministry of Agriculture show an increase by 8.37% in pig slaughterings during the first trimester of 2015.

The April census showed little change in overall pig numbers in Denmark although there was a small increase in the number of breeding pigs.

During the first quarter of this year a total of 790,595 pigs have been slaughtered, representing a growth of 11.2%  over the same period in 2014.

During the first trimester of 2015, a total of 6,175,886 pigs have been slaughtered. This entails an increase by 2.4%.

Hog output expanded by 3.77 percent.

Croatia is a large pork importer, and in 2014, imports reached $236 million (79,447 MT), mainly from the EU.

The production of the food and beverages sector has increased by 3.8% in 2014, and this translates into €93,238 million.

World production of pigmeat is anticipated to grow by 1.9 percent to 119.4 million tonnes in 2015.