On September 24, the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the Overseas Agricultural Information Express (No. 171)

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1. Recently, FAO released the latest issue of "Cereal Supply and Demand Briefing". The report shows that the global cereal production in 2020 will reach 2.765 billion tons, 58 million tons higher than the output in 2019, a record high.

2. For many years, the German pig industry has shown a downward trend. In the first half of 2020, German pork production was 2.6 million tons, down 1% year-on-year. The pig inventory is 25.5 million, a decrease of 3.9% from 10 years ago. The decline in the number of pig farms is even more pronounced, with a decrease of 39% over a 10-year period to 20,400, and the average number of pigs raised per pig farm has increased from 795 to 1,248.

3. From January to June 2020, Kazakhstan exported 489,000 tons of agricultural products to China, amounting to US$196 million, a year-on-year increase of 15%. Among them, 274 thousand tons of crops amounted to 86 million US dollars, an increase of 11%; 213,000 tons of agricultural processed products amounted to 104 million US dollars, an increase of 18%; 2,000 tons of livestock products, amounted to 5 million US dollars, an increase of 25%.

4. From July 2019 to June 2020, the international sales of Mexican avocados reached 1.272 million tons, an increase of 11% year-on-year, and the export value reached US$ 3.245 billion, an increase of 22% year-on-year. Among them, 964,000 tons were exported to the United States, with an export value of 2.4 billion U.S. dollars, and both the export volume and export value reached a record high.

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