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
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Positive global meat outlook for 2013
Meat consumption is forecast to grow but at a lower rate than in recent years. (Image source: Kate McCarthy/Flickr)
Modest overall demand growth in global meat markets for next year was the forecast revealed by GIRA, the specialist research consultancy, recently
Take the heat out of poultry house and off your flock
Birds do not possess sweat glands but instead lose water by evaporation from facial appendages and through panting. (Image source: Stephen Luke/Flickr)
Whether layers or broilers, chickens perform best within a temperature range of 11 to 26°C, and the behavioural and physiological changes which occur when house temperature progressively exceeds the top end of this range are well known and documented
Irish poultry firm to invest in equipment for offal extraction
Irelands Carton Brothers has announced that it will make a €3mn (US$4.7 million) investment in an equipment that will remove more offal from its chickens for export to foreign markets, especially China
India on track to become the world's largest beef exporter
India will ship roughly 1.5mt of beef in 2012. (avlxyz/Flickr)
India is on track to overtake Australia as the world’s largest exporter of beef and veal in 2012, according to a forecast made by the US Department of Agricultures (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service
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