China Vows Enhanced Agricultural Investment
CHINA - China's central authorities on Wednesday said the nation will continue to step up investment and subsidies for agriculture this year in order to stabilize grain production.

Farm Produce Prices Rise for 8th Straight Week
CHINA - Farm produce prices rose for an eighth consecutive week last week, while the prices of producer goods remained unchanged, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday.

Meat Safety Boosted for Spring Festival
CHINA - The government will redouble its efforts to weed out illegal meat processing in the coming months, especially during the Spring Festival, in the interest of food safety, officials said on Friday....

Food Safety Check Ahead of Spring Festival
CHINA - China will make "all-out efforts" to step up safety overhauls of food necessities in the production and logistics chains to prevent mishaps during the upcoming Spring Festival shopping season.

China's Food Safety Suffers 'Feeble Foundation'
CHINA - A senior Chinese official admitted Tuesday that the nation's food safety still suffered from a "feeble foundation."

China Hog Markets in January 2012
CHINA - Looking at the size of the breakdown of the inventory for November 2011-breeding stock was around 49.05 million and total on farm inventory was around 476.25 million (as compared to October 2011-breeding...

Pork Price Manipulation; Six Jailed for Tainted Pork
CHINA - A Chongqing Municipality court Wednesday sentenced a gangster death for killing a person in an attempt to manipulate pork price in the city markets.

China Bans Production and Sale of Ractopamine
CHINA - China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced Friday, 23 December, that the country has banned the production and sale of ractopamine, a controversial feed additive used to...

China Urges Efforts to Ensure Food Safety
CHINA - China's food safety authority issued a circular on Thursday requiring food safety watchdogs across the country to beef up supervision amid the approaching New Year's holiday and China's Spring...

Farm Produce Prices Rise; Producer Goods Fall
CHINA - The Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday that the country's farm produce prices continued to rise last week while producer goods prices fell for a fourth consecutive week.

Chinese Meat Industry & Economy Continue to Grow
ANALYSIS - Is the Chinese bubble about to burst? For some time now out of the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - China's growth rate has been not only one of the most rapid, but it has...

TOPIGS Imports More Top Genetics to China
CHINA - TOPIGS has imported 500 top breeding pigs into China. This second successful importation comes just one month after a first import of 1,000 animals.

Mouldy Corn Hit Tianli's Business in Q4
CHINA - Tianli expects 2011 revenue and net income in the range of US$28.5 to $29.5 million and $8.2 to $8.8 million, respectively. Its fourth-quarter results were impacted by contamination of the feed...

New System Tracks Pigs from Farm to Plate
CHINA - A system has been developed that will help ensure the safety of pork products in the Shandong Province while improving the efficiency of the food supply chain in the region.

Zhongpin Starts Trial Production at New Pork Plants
CHINA - Zhongpin has announced that trial production at its two newest chilled and frozen pork products plants, in Jiangsu and Jilin provinces, began on 16 December 2011.

IBM to Build Food-Safety System for Pork
CHINA - International Business Machines (IBM) Corp., the world’s largest computer-services company, won a contract to build a food-monitoring system in China as the nation toughens supervision of food...

China's Economic Trends Drive Change to Modern, Efficient Agriculture
ANALYSIS - With a growing population but a shrinking rural population, China's farmers are changing from man-power to iron horse-power as they move to a more contemporary approach to agriculture, writes...

Call for Tougher Measures on Food Safety
CHINA - Vice-Premier Li Keqiang has called for "more forceful measures" to deal with food safety problems and crack down on food safety crimes.

China Hog Markets
CHINA - Ron Lane, Senior Consultant for Genesus China, writes, "China: it is the pork powerhouse of the world with over 51 per cent of the world’s population of pigs being raised within China."

Crackdown Provoked by 'Lean Meat Powder'
CHINA - By late October, Henan province courts had tried 59 cases related to "lean meat powder", a substance used illegally to stimulate muscle growth in pigs.

Experts Vouch for Safety of China's Pork Industry
CHINA - Surging pork imports are not likely to hurt the domestic pork industry, experts said yesterday, even though imports of the meat are expected to reach a record high this year.

TOPIGS Imports Top Genetics into China
CHINA - TOPIGS has successfully imported 1003 top breeding pigs to China. These animals originate from TOPIGS nucleus farms in Canada. The great grandparent pigs are the top of the TOPIGS breeding pyramid...

113 Penalised Over Chemical Tainted Pork
CHINA - Central China's Henan Province, a leading agricultural base, has issued heavy sentences to 113 people, including 77 government employees, over a chemical tainted pork scandal reported in March...

Chinese Meat Production to Increase
CHINA - The United State Department of Agriculture has forecast China’s 2012 total meat production to increase three per cent year-on-year, to 81.4 million tonnes.

Pair Detained for Illegal Pork Fat Production
CHINA - A couple in eastern Anhui Province have been detained for producing more than 40 tons of inferior pork fat using waste meat and selling it for about 500,000 yuan (US$78,600) over the past six years....

Tianli Agritech Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results
CHINA - Tianli Agritech, Inc., a leading producer of breeder and market hogs headquartered in Wuhan City, China, has announced its financial results for the quarter and nine month period ended 30 September...

'Lean Meat Powder' Found in China's Imported Pork
CHINA - China's top quality watchdog announced Tuesday that it had found banned additive clenbuterol, commonly known as "lean meat powder"in China, in some imported pork products this year.

Drop in Pork Prices Since Mid-September
CHINA - China's farm produce prices continued to fall last week, with pork prices 1.9 per cent lower than a week earlier and down 8.2 per cent cumulatively since mid-September, the Ministry of Commerce...

Higher Revenues and Income for Zhongpin
CHINA - Chinese meat and food processing giant Zhongpin has reported higher revenues and net income for the third quarter of the year.

China's Farm Produce Prices Continue to Fall
CHINA - Farm produce prices in China continued to fall for the week ending on 6 November, according to a report released by the Ministry of Commerce today.