On May 6, 2021, the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the Overseas Agricultural Information Express (No. 278).

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1. China's pork imports in March reached a record level of 460,000 tons, an increase of 210,000 tons year-on-year, and surpassed the record of 440,000 tons set in December last year. It is predicted that China’s annual pork output may fluctuate between 45-55 million tons before 2025, which is still lower than the five-year average before the epidemic. The continuing impact of African swine fever has shifted protein consumption from pork to red meat, and China will be forced to import other proteins such as poultry, beef and mutton from all over the world.

2. From April 19 to 23, 2021, spring red wheat in western Manitoba, Canada was US$244.76 per ton, up 29.4% year-on-year; rapeseed was US$669 per ton, up 94.2% year-on-year.

3. The latest research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) points out that nearly one-third of the world's food is produced by small farmers. The report shows that 5/6 of the world’s farms have an area of ​​less than 2 hectares, accounting for 12% of the total global agricultural land area and 35% of the total global food production.

4. According to the report of the Argentine Beef Export Promotion Association, Argentina exported 146,000 tons of beef from January to March 2021, an increase of 23% year-on-year, and the export value was US$616 million, an increase of 0.7% year-on-year. Among them, 109,300 tons of beef were exported to China, accounting for 75% of the total beef exports of Afghanistan.

5. According to the prediction of scientists from the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Economics, Ukraine’s 2021 cereal harvest is expected to reach 70.7 million tons, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year, which will be the second best year in history.

6. As of the end of 2020, the number of sheep in Kazakhstan has reached 17.7 million heads, an increase of 837,000 heads year-on-year, a record high. Among them, there are 8.4 million stocks of livestock enterprises and farms, and 9.2 million stocks of herders' families.

7. The Ministry of Agriculture of India stated that harvesting and purchasing of winter crops in India are proceeding normally. The wheat planting area totals 31.58 million hectares, and the total harvested area currently amounts to 81%. Most beans and oilseeds have been harvested.

8. Statistics from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics show that between July 2020 and March 2021, palm oil imports from Pakistan reached US$1.863 billion, a year-on-year increase of 34.86%; imports amounted to 2,443,300 tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%. Soybean oil imports reached 48.32 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 6.72%; imports amounted to 72,776 tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.36%.

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