November 23, 2009

Spanish pork exports increase 16 percent in H1

Spanish pork exports rose by 16 percent during the first half of the current year to 426.2 million tonnes.

This was mainly result of increased supplies to EU countries.
 

Currently Spain remains as the world's fourth largest supplier of pork - after Germany, Denmark and the US.

Most of the Spanish pork is supplied to France, which accounted around 30 percent of the country's total exports.
 

Moreover, this year, France has imported about 22-percent more pork from Spain than during the same period of last year.

Shipments to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which usually do not import large quantities of pork from Spain, have also significantly increased.

A dramatic reduction of the EU pig population was one of the reasons for the increase of Spanish pork exports to the all the largest EU countries as well as Poland.