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The SENASICA is pursuing negotiations with the health authorities of Russia, Thailand and Vietnam, among other countries.

Goods such as coffee (65.3%), flowers (25.5%), bananas (25%), palm oil (36.1%) and frozen beef (357.3%), among others, helped to encourage exports in the third month of 2017.

The ICEX Spain Export and Investments has published a report drafted by the Economy and Commerce Office of the Embassy of Spain in Athens regarding the Cypriot meat market.

The Commission is publishing the composition of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare announced in January 2017.

In the first quarter of 2017, the output of pork was 14.68 million tons, a year-on-year growth of 0.2 percent.

For the first quarter, pork exports were up 17 percent in volume (627,647 mt) and 22 percent in value ($1.58 billion).

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the creation of an undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a recognition of the ever-increasing importance of international trade to American agriculture.

The EC has published Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/767 amending the Annex to Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in Poland.

In 2016, the agriculture, livestock and fishing production exceeded 220 million tonnes: an increase by 5.3% with respect to 2015.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories and stop the resulting downward price spiral.

In the first trimester of 2017, pig production has increased by more than 5%, mainly in the regions of Pskov, Chelyabinsk, Tver and Voronezh, and in the territory of Stavropol.

Canada has confirmed three new outbreaks of PEDs in Manitoba pig farms.

Despite the two consecutive months with a negative balance in the volume of fresh pork shippings, they remain positive so far this year.