March 15, 2007

China's live poultry exports down while processed poultry exports up

China exported 19 million live poultry (excluding breeders) worth US$31.6 million in 2006, a 24-percent decrease in volume and 15 percent decrease in value.

All of China's live poultry were exported to Hong Kong and Macao.

The value of exports to Hong Kong accounted for US$24.2 million of the total.

Guangdong Province was China's major live poultry export source, accounting for 97 percent of China's total live poultry exports.

Meanwhile, China's poultry import numbers fell 24 percent to 1 million while value fell 13 percent to US$15.5 million last year.

China imports breeding poultry mainly from the USA and the Netherlands.

The country's processed poultry exports hit US$733 million, a 7.5-percent increase compared with 2005 while tonnage increase 9.5 percent to 236,500 tonnes.

China's processed poultry are exported mainly to Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Shandong and Liaoning provinces are China's largest processed poultry export sources.