Chinese pork output beats expectations in 2020, after swine fever hit
1/18/2021 By Dominique Patton BEIJING, Jan 18 (Reuters) - China's pork output fell less than expected last year as it recovered from the impact of an incurable hog disease that depleted breeding stock, official data showed on Monday. China's 2020 pork output declined by 3.3% from a year earlier to 41.13 million tonnes after plunging 21% in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. Some analysts expected a bigger fall in 2020 after an outbreak of African swine fever hit China in mid-2018 and meant the country's breeding stock had declined an estimated 60% by mid-2019. The 2020 r...