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Saturday, 05 September 2009 |
Last year, China's meat production topped 72.69 million tons, up 6 percent from the previous year, Deng Fujiang, vice president of the China Meat Association, told the World Pork Conference which opened Thursday in eastern China's coastal city of Qingdao.
63.5 percent of the total was pork, which accounted for about 50% of the world's pork production. China's meat output accounted for 29 percent of the global total last year. China imported1.84 million tons but exported only 742,000 tons of meat last year, said Deng.
Patrick J. Moore, president of the International Meat Secretariat, said he expected increasing worldwide meat consumption and international trade despite the impact of the global economic downturn and the A/H1N1 flu epidemic.
Global meat consumption is projected to expand by almost 2 percent annually from now to 2018 to more than 320 million tones, 37.5 percent of which would be pig meat, he said, citing an OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)-FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) Agricultural Outlook report issued in June. |
