A global animal proteins analyst says he expects China will be forced to
import more pork later this year.
Justin Sherrard with Rabobank says China normally imports around two and a half million metric tons of pork a year. But he says as their pork production starts to decrease because of the African Swine Fever outbreak, they’ll probably need to buy an extra one to two million tons. “You’ve seen a a fair bit of pork going into cold stores, and we think it won’t be until around about May, maybe June of this year that we really start to see a pickup in import requirements from China.”
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