新型コロナウィルス余波 世界食料市場に大波
中国 飼料不足で生きた鶏を米国から大量輸入
Coronavirus
fears force China into mass chicken cull,FT.com,20.2.17
China is to begin importing live chickens from the US as feed shortages due to the coronavirus force poultry farms
in the world’s second-biggest economy to start culling millions of young birds.
The culling of poultry follows the mass slaughter of pigs in China due to African swine fever over the past year
and threatens to worsen a protein shortage in the country that has sparked rising inflation and soaring meat prices
“There is no question China’s chicken population will fall sharply in the coming months,”
said Qiu Cong of Jinghai Poultry Industry Group, a leading chicken producer. “The chicks are gone and farmers are struggling to make ends meet.”
Farmers have slaughtered at least 100m young chickens because travel restrictions imposed to control the spread of
the coronavirus have blocked shipments of animal feed, according to a report by Wang Zhongqiang, former director at the China Animal Husbandry Association, and Ning Zhonghua, a professor at China Agricultural
University.
While this only represented 1 per cent of China annual production of 9.3bn grown chickens, the trend was expected
to accelerate if the nationwide shutdown that started in late January continued in the coming weeks
.African swine fever, which swept through China in 2019, wiped out two-fifths of the nation’s pig herd. Pig
farmers were now also struggling to source enough feed for their animals, especially in Hubei, the province at the centre of the outbreak.・・・
ニュージーランド 消費税の影響を受けた2011年以来の高騰
Annual
food price rise biggest since GST-influenced 2011,New Zealnd Herald,20.2.18
It is getting tougher to be a meat eater, as price surges of 21 per cent for bacon, 14 per cent for lamb chops and
13 per cent for beef mince have contributed to the largest annual rise in food prices for eight years, Stats NZ says.
The agency said beef and blade steak prices reached all-time highs last month, pushed up by increased export
demand from China, which has had more than half of its pig population wiped out by the African swine fever (ASF) epidemic.
Meat Industry Association data showed that China took 57 per cent more New Zealand red meat last year, importing
$3.7 billion worth of meat, of which almost half — $1.7 billion worth — was in beef products.
In the pork market, New Zealand produces about 40 per cent of the 110,000 tonnes it consumes, the bulk imported
from North America and the EU.
NZ Pork general manager David Baines said about 85 per cent of imported pork products were used in bacon and the
rest in other processed food such as ham, sausages, marinated and injected pork products.・・・
アルゼンチン 中国市場閉鎖で食肉産業に大損害
Argentine meat industry suffering great losses because of coronavirus and closure of Chinese market,Merco Press,20.2.18
Argentina's meat industry is becoming highly complicated because of the drop in exports to its main market,
China, warned Daniel Urcía, vice-president of the Argentine regional abattoirs industry, FIFRA.
Argentina's meat industry is becoming highly complicated because of the drop in exports to its main market, China,
warned Daniel Urcía, vice-president of the Argentine regional abattoirs industry, FIFRA.
“May I remind all those involved that China absorbs 70% of Argentina's meat exports and redistributing that volume
is not an easy job, even to some alternative markets for that beef since most probably the abattoirs don't have the necessary certification, as could be the case of Russia”, added Urcía.・・・
パキスタン 中国からの輸入減による冷凍コンテナ不足で果実・野菜を輸出できず
Fruit,
vegetable exports hit by coronavirus ,Dawn,20.2.18
KARACHI: Fruits and vegetables exporters are facing problems due to shortage of following
reduction in the volume of import cargo from China where a thousand people have died due to coronavirus.
All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association
Patron-in-Chief Waheed Ahmed said it’s peak export season for kinnow, potato and onion but they are suffering due to acute shortage of empty reefer containers.
One hundred reefer containers per day consisting of kinnow, potato and onion are being
exported from Pakistan and after suspension of the garlic imports from China, which were also being re-exported from here, he claimed. Against the demand of 1,500 such containers a week, around 1,000 are hardly
available, he added.
Ahmed said the opportunity to export onion from Pakistan has further brightened after India
suspensed its and likewise, that of kinnow is also on the peak. Around 600-plus reefer containers of the fruit and the same volume of reefer containers of potato and onion are being exported per month from Pakistan.
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Besides, garlic and other fruits and vegetables are being exported as well and this is a
unique opportunity to enhance that manifold.
However, exporters would miss this golden opportunity owing to refeer containers’ shortage
caused by low imports from China, he said.・・・
タイ 対中食品輸出倍増の予想
ood exports to China rising,Bangkok Post,20.2.17
Thailand's food exports to
China are likely to double in the second quarter, driven by a surge in demand after food stocks for the first quarter are depleted.
Visit Limlurcha, vice-chairman
of the Thai National Shippers' Council and president of the Thai Food Processors Association, said that if the coronavirus epidemic can be kept under control in the first quarter, China's demand for imported food
from Thailand is expected to double in the second quarter.・・・
ベトナム 対中コメ輸出減で日本も含む新市場開拓が必要
Việt Nam needs to find new rice markets
to replace China: experts,Viet Nam News,20.2.17
HCM
CITY – Since the novel coronavirus (Covid-2019) epidemic will surely affect exports to China, diversifying markets is an urgent requirement for Vietnamese rice exporters, experts have said.
The winter-spring rice crop harvest has begun in the Cửu
Long (Mekong) Delta.
In Hậu
Giang Province 1,000ha of crops have been marginally affected by salinity but farmers have harvested hundreds of hectares of rice early, and the yield is quite high at 7.7 tonnes per hectare.
Prices have decreased slightly since the beginning of the season earlier this month because
exports to China have ceased, Trần
Chí Hùng, director of provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said.
The price would continue to drop unless new markets are found, he said.
Bùi Thị
Thanh Tâm, general director of VinaFoods 1 Corporation, said five years ago China was the largest market for Vietnamese rice, but now export markets have been expanded, meaning the novel coronavirus epidemic would
not hit Việt
Nam's exports too badly.
The Philippines became the largest market for Vietnamese rice, buying US$885 million worth
last year, according to the General Department of Customs.
Đỗ
Hà Nam, vice chairman of the Việt
Nam Food Association, said China would continue to reduce rice imports this year.
But Việt
Nam has a chance to ship to Japan this year since that latter wants to diversify its import sources to other suppliers from countries that have signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific
Partnership (CPTPP), including Việt
Nam.
It now relies much on US supply.
But to export to Japan, the Vietnamese agriculture sector needs support from authorities.・・・