China Grain, Livestock Products and Aquatic Products Production in 2013

By CnAgri2014-03-04 09:27:52 Print

On Feb. 24th, the National Bureau of Statistics released China Economy and Social Development Statistics Bulletin in 2013, of which, data related to livestock and feed is as following:

Grain production totaled 601.94 million MT in 2013, increasing 12.36 million MT with a growth of 2.1%, of which, rice production for feed use registered 203.29 million MT, down 0.5%, wheat production for feed 121.72 million MT, up 0.6% and corn production for feed 217.73 million MT, up 5.9%.

Meat production totaled 85.36 million MT in 2013, up 1.8% on year-on-year basis, of which, pork, beef and mutton production was 54.93 million MT, 6.73 million MT and 6.73 million MT respectively, up 2.8%, 1.7% and 1.8% respectively on year-on-year basis. In the year-end of 2013, live hog inventory and slaughtered was 474.11 million heads and 715.57 million heads respectively, down 0.4% but up 2.5% respectively. Poultry egg production was 28.76 million MT, up 0.5%, milk production 35.31 million MT, down 5.7% and poultry meat production, 17.98 million MT, down 1.3%.

As for aquatic products, the production registered 61.72 million MT, up 4.5% from 2012. 45.47 million MT was from breeding and 16.25 million MT was from fishing, up 6.0% and 3.5% respectively.

BOABC’s Insight: according to  the data, bee production continued increasing and poultry meat production only saw slight decline, which are doubtful.

From “China Livestock and Feed Market Weekly Report”