Spain overtakes Germany to become EU's top pork producer

According to a Reuters report, Germany has long been the top market for EU pork production, but the September 2020 outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in wild boars prevented the country from export to the potential market is China, so the EU has shifted production to Spain, where there is no ASF epidemic. According to data from the European Commission, China is by far the EU's largest pork product export market, accounting for about 56% of EU pork exports in 2021; China's pork imports have skyrocketed after an outbreak of ASF devastated the world's largest pig herd. In 2020, EU pork product exports to China reached 3.34 million tons, up 60% compared to 2019 and nearly tripled compared to 2018. Seven months of 2021 still reached a high of 1.86 million USD, only a slight decrease of 0.1% over the same period in 2020. Ramon Soler Ciurana, export director of the Spanish pork producer Faccsa-Prolongo, said that no matter how hard China's pork industry tries, it won't be able to ...