Crackdown as Chinese pork crisis goes bad
BEIJING- Unscrupulous meat-sellers have been injecting pigs with water and passing off diseased meat as safe, to try and take advantage of record Chinese pork prices, state media said on this week.

Chinese Pork prices in major cities continue to rise
SHANGHAI - China's Year of the Pig is rapidly turning into the Year of the Lean Wallet with pork prices going through the roof in major Chinese cities.

Pork price rise alone won't affect CPI much: Economists
CHINA - China's pork prices continued to rise this month, but that factor alone will not significantly push up the consumer price index (CPI ), analysts said.

Time ripe for the launch of live pig futures
CHINA - Live pig futures is expected to be launched in the second half of this year or in the first half of next year, according to insiders from the China Animal Agriculture Association.

Pork prices soar in big cities, inflationary pressure still heavy
CHINA - Despite the Chinese government's measures to curb the bulgy consumer price index (CPI) figure, the price of pork still keeps soaring in some large Chinese cities, which makes the inflationary pressures still heavy.

Chinese factories closed due to contamination
BEIJING - China has closed 180 food factories after inspectors found industrial chemicals were being used in products from candy to seafood.

Zhongpin Receives $13 million from Exercise of Warrants
CHINA - Zhongpin Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ZHNP) ("Zhongpin"), a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), is pleased to report the exercise of warrants to purchase 2,869,859 shares of its common stock for net...

China pig disease caused by new strain
CHINA - A pig disease that swept through 10 provinces in China decimating the swine population and ramping up pork prices was caused by a new and highly pathogenic strain of blue ear disease, Chinese scientists said.

China to increase State pork reserves
CHINA - Zhu Zhigang, vice minister of finance, has announced that China will improve its forecasting and monitoring system for non-staple foods such as live pigs and pork.

Chinese gov´t to allocate 6.5 billion yuan to control pork prices
BEIJING - With the dramatic rise in pork price, the Chinese government has said that it plans to spend 6.5 billion yuan (850 million US dollars) this year to contain pork prices.

The Chinese government to stabilize pork prices
CHINA - The Chinese government has taken various measures to check growing pork prices, which have jumped rapidly since last month. A wide range of measures have helped to bring some stability to the prices.

China’s soaring pork prices boost farmers’ incomes
CHINA - The soaring pork prices that pushed China’s inflation rate to the highest in more than two years are not all bad news: Farmers’ incomes are getting a boost and that may increase consumer spending and lower dependence on exports.

China put into use new vaccine against PRRS
CHINA - China on Wednesday formally put into use a new-type vaccine specially targeting a highly pathogenic blue-ear pig disease that has been haunting Chinese pig farmers for months, said the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).

Guangzhou rolls out pork subsidy for regional producers
CHINA - Guangzhou will give a monthly subsidy of 20 yuan (US$2.6) to every low-income-earning family for the period from May to July to help offset the higher prices of pork and other non-staple foods.

Safe, Stable Pigs Supply to HK, Macao Urged
CHINA - The provincial bureau of inspection and quarantine in south China's Guangdong said Tuesday it has stepped up actions to ensure pigs supplied to Hong Kong and Macao are safe.

Pork more important than ethanol in China
CHINA - In China the authorities may move to ban the production of corn-based ethanol to literally continue feeding the trough.

Chinese beef about the price of pork
CHINA - Few things are as essential to the Chinese as their pigs. From spare ribs to barbecued pork buns, pork is a staple of the Chinese diet. And, in this Year of the Pig, an acute shortage of pork has been national news as butchers raise prices almost...

Ministry urgers tough control of Blue-ear Pig Disease
CHINA - China's Ministry of Agriculture has issued a notice for local governments to improve the emergency plans for the Blue Ear (PRRS) disease outbreak. It says it should also section off and cease pork trading in affected areas at the time of an outbreak....

As Pork Price Drops, Egg Price Increases
CHINA - The price of pork in China dropped 0.2 percent due to an increase in supply last week, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday.

Pig clones for organ transplants produced
CHINA - Two miniature pig clones for organ transplant experiments have been born in the city of Tianjin.