Pigmeat production worldwide last year passed the 100 million tons mark for the first time in history, on evidence from FAO’s database. It shows about 100.3 million tons produced, out of an all-meats total of around 258 million tons produced and consumed globally in 2004. World meat production and consumption will almost certainly exceed 300 million metric tons annually within the next 30 years, according to presentations to an Outlook conference organised in the UK by the Meat and Livestock Commission. One trend foreseen by the OECD grouping of industrial economies is increasing competition in the meat market from lower-cost countries. Brazil features strongly in that analysis where pork is concerned, having exported some 471 000 tons of pigmeat in 2004. Other Brazilian agricultural ministry statistics presented to the meeting suggested an annual average increase of 7% in Brazil’s pork output since 1990.
Pigmeat production worldwide last year passed the 100 million tons mark for the first time in history, on evidence from FAO’s database. It shows about 100.3 million tons produced, out of an all-meats total of around 258 million tons produced and consumed globally in 2004. World meat production and consumption will almost certainly exceed 300 million metric tons annually within the next 30 years, according to presentations to an Outlook conference organised in the UK by the Meat and Livestock Commission. One trend foreseen by the OECD grouping of industrial economies is increasing competition in the meat market from lower-cost countries. Brazil features strongly in that analysis where pork is concerned, having exported some 471 000 tons of pigmeat in 2004. Other Brazilian agricultural ministry statistics presented to the meeting suggested an annual average increase of 7% in Brazil’s pork output since 1990.