Battling Inflation - China's Number One Priority
BEIJING — To understand why China's leaders are jittery about the political fallout from rising inflation, it helps to wander city markets and listen to Chinese consumers grumble about rising prices.

AgFeed Completes $41 Million Financing
CHINA - AgFeed Industries, Inc, a market leader in China's premix animal nutrition and hog raising industry, has announced the completion of its $41 million financing.

First GM 'Phytase' Corn Licensed
BEIJING - China-based supplier of crop seeds and agri-biotech research, Origin Agritech, says it has licensed a new genetically modified corn variety that includes the beneficial enzyme Phytase.

Disease Control Efforts Praised by OIE Director
CHINA - Bernard Vallat, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has extolled China's efforts in animal disease control and prevention and called for more cooperation with China in the field.

Market Report Counts China's Woes
CHINA - China's feed market experienced a hard time in 2007. Hog farms suffered a substantial reduction of hog inventory. Demand for Feed reduced largely and feedstuff price surged on a high level.

Livestock Warning in Snow Hit Regions
CHINA - The Chinese government has warned local authorities to be on the alert for possible animal epidemics in the wake of the heavy snow fall across the country.

Pigging Good Investment
CHINA - It pays to raise pigs in China, says capital and investment research organisation Beacon Equity Research. Pork is by far the most popular animal protein in the heavily carnivorous nation, accounting for around 65 per cent of total meat consumption....

Investigators Gear up to Locate Illegal Pork
TAIPEI - In the clamp down to rid the market of unsafe, illegal meat investigators and City Government officials raided two freezing tanks in Hsining Market and Loyang Street in Taipei yesterday in an attempt to find pork from sick and dead pigs.

Price Rises Spark Ideas for Return to Tradition
CHINA - Liu Yonghao, who started out selling pig feed and later became one of the mainland's richest, sees recent pork price hikes as a call to go back to his old business.

Mainland Assures Grain and Livestock Supplies
CHINA - China's government hasissued assurance to Hong Kong and Macao's special administrative regions (SARs) that it can guarantee stable grain and livestock supplies.

Moves Stamp Out Price Manipulation
CHINA - Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam- kuen has announced arrangements with Beijing's Ministry of Commerce that will stamp out price manipulation on pork.

China Moves to Steady Prices Amid Inflation Concerns
BEIJING - China is to take legal, economic and the necessary administrative measures to stabilise prices in the face of concerns over growing inflation.

China Ploughs $Millions into Abattoir Upgrade
BEIJING - China is to invest more than 500 million yuan (US$68.8 million)in a nationwide pork quality overhaul. It will upgrade 3,279 abattoirs, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).

Parent Backlash at Pig Rearing Project
CHINA - Chinese parents are up in arms after a school ordered children to feed pigs three times a day. They say the action is denying their children a proper education as the project is taking time away from other studies.

Shortage Means Prices Will Stay High Until Summer
CHINA - Pork prices are expected to remain high in the first half of the year, but will likely decline in the second half, says Assistant Minister of Commerce Huang Hai .