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Fleischwirtschaft <strong>international</strong> 1_<strong>2017</strong><br />
News<br />
Rabobank<br />
Pork Quarterly Q1published<br />
The level to which China imports pork<br />
after Chinese New Year will determine<br />
the start of the seasonal increase of<br />
the Rabobank Five-Nation Hog Price<br />
Index, according to the latest<br />
Rabobank Pork Quarterlyreport.<br />
Chinese pork prices will remain<br />
elevated, but likelyslightlyless so<br />
after Chinese New Year.The stabilising<br />
sow herd and rapidlyrising productivity<br />
will not affect the market<br />
before summer, while the continuing<br />
impact of environmental policies on<br />
industry restructuring will limit expansion.<br />
Pressured supplyand<br />
continuing exports will support<br />
prices and margins in the EU. However,<br />
rising export dependency as a<br />
result of ongoing pressured domestic<br />
France<br />
Ban for beef lifted<br />
U.S. authorities have lifted an<br />
embargo on French beef imports<br />
after 19 years, the French agriculture<br />
ministry said. This was<br />
reported by CTV News.<br />
France is the fourth EU country<br />
to have its beef re-admitted to<br />
the US market after a1998 ban<br />
consumption increases the importance<br />
of afavourable exchange rate,<br />
given rising competition from the<br />
Americas. The margin split in the US<br />
industry will continue in 1H <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Rising production will continue to<br />
pressure farmers’ margins, while<br />
demand will support packers’ margins.<br />
However, trade developments<br />
and the impact of exchange rates will<br />
be the wildcards.<br />
//www.rabobank.com<br />
imposed because of fears over<br />
bovine spongiform encephalopathy<br />
(BSE), also known as mad<br />
cow disease. The others are<br />
Ireland, Lithuania and the<br />
Netherlands.<br />
//www.ctvnews.ca<br />
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Partner country was Hungary<br />
Once again the International Green Week Berlin <strong>2017</strong> emphasised<br />
its function as aleading trade fair for national and <strong>international</strong><br />
agribusiness. From 20 to 29 January atotal of 1,650 exhibitors<br />
from 66 countries provided acomprehensive review of<br />
the food industry’s global market and of the achievements of<br />
agriculture and horticulture.<br />
Messe Berlin registered at the trade fair and conferences of the<br />
Green Week <strong>2017</strong> total almost 400,000. In addition to visitors<br />
attending this event daily the halls were filled each day with some<br />
10,000 personnel such as exhibitors and stand staff,service<br />
operatives and media representatives. Percapita expenditure by<br />
visitors to the fair remained at last year’s level, exceeding of 120€<br />
and providing exhibitors with sales worth more than 48 mill. €.<br />
Dates of the next event:19to28January 2018.<br />
//www.gruenewoche.de/en<br />
Photo: Messe Berlin<br />
DMRI<br />
Danish Institute opened modern slaughterhouse in South Korea<br />
Daejeon Chungnam Pig-Farmer Cooperative<br />
(DC) plans to establish a40,000 m 2 new<br />
slaughterhouse for 3,000 pigs and 300 cattle<br />
per day near Cheonan, South Korea. It will<br />
become the workplace of 400 employees. DC<br />
is amajor pig producer and the owner of<br />
butcher shops and restaurants in South<br />
Korea.<br />
The facility is planned to start operating at<br />
the end of 2018,meeting all modern demands<br />
and standards. DC has engaged the Danish<br />
Meat Research Institute and Haenglim Architecture<br />
&Engineering to facilitate the<br />
project.<br />
The capacity of the plant is planned to<br />
process 3,000 pigs and 300 cattle per day<br />
with the possibility of expanding with aprocessing<br />
department. The site will offer space<br />
of around 85,000 m 2 ;the buildings will take<br />
around 40,000 m 2 .The construction works are<br />
The Danish Meat<br />
Research Institute<br />
designed the<br />
state-of-the-art plant for<br />
the Daejeon Chungnam<br />
Pig-Farmer Cooperative.<br />
planned to start in the earlyspring of <strong>2017</strong><br />
and by the end of 2018 the production will<br />
start up. The slaughterhouse will complywith<br />
the standards of the European Union and the<br />
United States of America for slaughtering,<br />
cutting, de-boning and hygiene for producing<br />
quality meat products for Korea. Facilities will<br />
be made for the collection and separation of<br />
animal by-products according to the EU<br />
by-product regulation “Health rules concerning<br />
animal by-products not intended for<br />
human consumption” EU 1774/2002.<br />
Equipment and processes will be chosen<br />
according to the EU environmental standards<br />
for slaughterhouses, BREF (11.03) "Best Available<br />
Techniques in the Slaughterhouses and<br />
Animal By-Product Industries". Media consumption<br />
and emission will be within the<br />
ranges stated in the EU BREF. Transport of<br />
products to and from the slaughterhouse will<br />
be made from the main roads east and south<br />
of the site.<br />
//www.dti.dk