Mystery disease kills pigs in Southern China: press

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Re: Mystery disease kills pigs in Southern China: press

I was checking the China statistics, but didn't find much new.

We heard about no connection with H5N1 so far.




http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/statisticaldata/Quarterlydata/t20070425_402401192.htm

price for Hogs (gross weight) in China
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1st quarter 2006 : 98.55
2nd quarter 2006 : 76.57
3rd quarter 2006 : 90.37
4th quarter 2006 : 107.13
1st quarter 2007 : 118.00
2nd quarter 2007 : 125.74
3rd quarter 2007 : 164.78
4th quarter 2007 : 156.23
1st quarter 2008 : 162.07


apparantly they discontinued the quarterly lists for agricultural products
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/statisticaldata/Quarterlydata/


http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/ndsj/2007/indexeh.htm
number of hogs in China, End of year:

363,400,423,431,447,457,463,466,482,503,494

1996 - 2006:


> End of June 2007 there were 476 Million pigs , 0.15% less than last year June.

priced down in 2009 due to "swine flu" (human new H1N1 pandemic)