China’s 2019 Pork Output Plunges to 16-Year Low as Disease Culls Herd
China, which is also the world’s biggest pork consumer, produced 42.55 million tonnes of the meat last year, down 21.3% from 2018, and the lowest output since 2003, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data. African swine fever, an incurable virus that kills almost all the pigs it infects but does not harm humans, reached China in …
News story posted on 2020-01-17T04:52:00.0000000Z
