China's pork production grew in 1H of 2026

In the first half year, the output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry was 50.50 million tons, up by 4.3% year on year. Of this total, the output of pork grew by 3.3% and and poultry grew by 9.4%. Beef and mutton dropped by 1.0% and 3.9% respectively.

At the end of the second quarter, the number of pigs registered in stock was 424.91 million, up by 0.1% year on year; and 372.46 million pigs were slaughtered, up by 1.7% in the first half of the year.