The year 2012 has registered a 1.9 per cent increase in world pork production which touched 110.8mn tonnes, according to a report by the Union of Producers and Employers of Meat Industry
About 7.4mn tonnes of pork have been introduced to the global market in the year which was three per cent more than in 2011.
The report noted that the production increase was caused by the improvement achieved in disease control among animals in
The reduction of the pig population in the
About 90 per cent of the 2012 increase in pork production has mostly occurred in developing Asian countries, particularly
A decrease in import of pork to Argentina, Korea and the Philippines was noted in 2012. The
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