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Vietnam has paused Korea chicken imports

According to Veterinary Office Area 6, Korea is one of country export frozen chicken to Vietnam in current. But due to Korea has been occurred avian influenza disease, Vietnam has paused Korea chicken imports.

According to the Livestock Department, in 2013, the volume of live livestock estimated reach 4.3 million tonnes, increased by 1.49% compared to 2012, in which the volume of live pig has reached 3.2 million tonnes, increased by 1.8%; volume of live chicken has reached 747,000 tonnes, increased by 2.4%; volume of live buffalo has reached 85,300 tonnes, decreased by 3.5%; volume of live cow has reached 285,000 tonnes, decreased by 2.9% compared to 2012. In summary, the volume of Vietnam live livestock has increased in 2013 because livestock disease has been controlled.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China livestock industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://www.thesaigontimes.vn/Home/kinhdoanh/xuatnhapkhau/109163/Viet-Nam-tam-ngung-nhap-thit-ga-tu-Han-Quoc.html


China Shuanghui International Changes Name to WH Group

On 21st, January 2014, Shuanghui International Holdings Limited (“Shuanghui International”), a leader in the global pork industry, today announced that it has changed its corporate name to WH Group Limited (“WH Group” or “the Company”). The renaming underscores the Company’s aspirations to solidify its leading position in the global pork industry, offering consumers worldwide animal protein products meeting high standards in quality, taste, variety and safety. The new name also serves to better differentiate the Company as a corporate brand from its numerous product brands.

The WH Group name is derived from “Wanzhou Holdings” where the Chinese characters “Wan” and “Zhou” connote eternity and continents respectively, while the WH Group logo design depicts four streams representing the Earth’s four major oceans, separating the space into five parts to represent the world’s continents. As the largest pork enterprise in the world, WH Group’s mission will continue to be delivering quality, tasty and nutritious animal protein products worldwide, anchored on a safety-first priority. The Company’s strategy remains focused on creating sustainable value by embracing a visionary management philosophy rooted in continuous innovation, with a long-term and forward-thinking perspective. “The renaming of our corporate brand to WH Group reflects the increasingly global reach of our operations, which combine the largest pork production companies in China and the United States and cater to consumers globally,” said WH Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Wan Long. “It also symbolizes our ambition to be a world-leading company known for food products that meet best-in-class standards of quality, nutrition and safety.”

WH Group is the controlling shareholder of Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 000895, “Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development”), China’s largest meat processing business, and owns Smithfield Foods, Inc. (“Smithfield”), the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development and Smithfield will retain their respective brand names, and their consumer-facing brands will remain the same. WH Group’s acquisition of Smithfield, which was completed in September 2013, is the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese company to date. The transaction merged the best technology, resources, practices, market access and operational expertise of the two companies to create a leading global pork company across the industry value chain, with an unmatched set of assets, branded products and geographic reach. Among its growth initiatives, WH Group is focused on increasing exports from the United States to Asia, building a global trading platform and exploring opportunities to work with Smithfield to develop premium products for the Chinese market.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


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New Zealand Fonterra to have 30 farms in China by 2020

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is expected to have 30 farms in China with an annual production capacity of 1 billion liters of milk by 2020, a company executive said on Monday.

Fonterra, which was involved in a recent botulism scare, said it plans to intensify the promotion of its finished products in China in the latter half of the year, including introducing a baby milk powder under the Fonterra brand. Fonterra currently has five farms in north China's Hebei Province and is planning to create a second conglomerate of farms in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, said Qin Min, vice president of Fonterra Greater China, on Monday night. The quality of cattle and milk at Fonterra's Chinese farms can meet New Zealand standards, Qin said. New Zealand has been a major provider of dairy products to China. In the first half of this year, China imported 371,000 tons of milk powder from New Zealand, accounting for 83.3 percent of the country's total milk powder imports, according to Chinese customs data.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6b99cf120101c24e.html


Agricultural product is expecting export surplus USD28.5 billion

According to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2014, the aim of agricultural exports will reach USD28.5 billion, increase by 3.6% compared to 2013.

In 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will restructure step by step livestock industry trending model farm. Moreover, seafood product will expect reach 6.2 million tonnes in volume and increase by 3.5-4% in value.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://plo.vn/kinh-te/nam-2014-nong-nghiep-du-kien-se-xuat-sieu-85-ti-usd-442234.html


Vietnam imported over 2 million tonnes of corn in 2013

In 2013, Vietnam imported 2,188,979 tonnes of corn from the foreign market, valued at USD 674,843,566, a 35.6% of volume increase compared with the same period last year.

Vietnam imported corn from 7 markets which are India, Brazil, Thailand, Argentina, Cambodia, Laos and America. The biggest supplier was India with 1,019,681 tonnes of corn import into Vietnam, value at USD 304,430,430, a 226.85% of volume increase from 2012. The second supplier in top 3 was Brazil with 779,836 tonnes of corn. These two markets and Thailand accounted for 86.3% of the total value of corn imports into Vietnam in 2013.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China feed industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Food security, rural environment top China's policy agenda in 2014

China's top policy priorities for 2014 will be improving the rural environment and maintaining food security, according to a a key policy document published by the official Xinhua news agency on Sunday.

The "number one document", issued every January by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, sets the country's policy priorities for the year, and has focused on rural matters every year since 2003. This year's document also focused on the development of "modern agriculture" and laid out improvements to the way the countryside is governed. However, hopes that Beijing would explicitly relax a longstanding 95-percent food self-sufficiency target and open the floodgates for more imports appear to have been dashed. The document said China would continue to pursue "basic grain self-sufficiency" while increasing the use of overseas markets and allowing an "appropriate" amount of imports, but it stressed it "would not relax domestic food production at any time".

Beijing has been preoccupied with cleaning up urban pollution following a spate of severe smog problems, but has also acknowledged that industrial contamination of water and soil, together with the overuse of pesticides and fertilizer, has caused severe environmental problems in the countryside. The fight against rural pollution is also part of China's efforts to ensure it has enough farmland, water and rural labor to feed a growing urban population without having to turn to overseas markets. Xinhua, citing the policy document, said China would seek to resolve environmental constraints such as water shortages.

It would also work over the rest of the year to strengthen food security, set up mechanisms to ensure sustainable rural development and deepen reforms to allow the transfer of land. Around 3.33 million hectares of farmland is now too polluted to grow crops, China said at the end of last year. Rejuvenating contaminated land will help China ensure that at least 120 million hectares of land is reserved for farming, a policy known as the "red line".

China's rapid urbanization has cut surplus farm labor and boosted incomes, but the government worries a dwindling rural workforce will be incapable of producing enough food to meet growing demand. So it has sought ways to spur farmers to stay on their land, by providing subsidies and investing in rural infrastructure. China has to work to improve conditions in the countryside in order to stop an exodus of rural workers into the cities, Agriculture Minister Han Changfu told Xinhua last year.

"Chinese farmers want to move to the cities, but it is not possible for them all to do so, and it is even less possible for them all to move into the big cities, so we must plan urbanization and rural construction accordingly and build homes that allow rural people to live a happy life," he said.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://shipin.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2014/0120/c85914-24165486.html


More chances for Vietnam seafood in China

Vietnam seafood exporters to China are facilitated by preferential policy recently approved by authorities in Yunnan province, China. Domestic seafood importers will receive CNY0.02 from Yunnan province for USD 1 of seafood products imported by them. Seafood products imported into China by air will be supported CNY600 per MT (in net weight) in freight. Besides, the province will fund 70% of total investment capital into projects building wholesale markets and storage centers of seafood products in Chang Shui airport and neighboring region.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://www.seafood.vasep.com.vn/Daily-News/50_8921/More-chances-for-Vietnam-seafood-in-China.htm


Joint ventures make inroads into China's infant formula market

The profitable baby formula market in China recently saw many new investors partnering up with foreign brands in the hope of grabbing a market share from domestic companies.

The Taiwanese food giant Tingyi operating on the mainland under the brand name Master Kong recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Japanese powdered milk manufacturer Wakodo to set up a joint venture in Shanghai that imports baby formula, Beijing Business Today reported.

Market sources said Wakodo will hold 55% of the shares of the new company, which will start operations in 2014, while Master Kong possesses 45%, according to the newspaper.

Meanwhile, the New Hope Group, a Chinese business juggernaut in the dairy, animal feed and meat products sectors, has revealed that it plans to invest in Synlait Milk in New Zealand, contracting the latter to develop and produce baby formula for the Chinese market.

"The Wakodo-Master Kong and Synlait-New Hope joint ventures were formed because Chinese consumers prefer foreign baby formula brands," China Investment Consulting's food sector researcher, Jian Aihua, told the business daily.

In China, foreign brands normally face a marketing challenge due to a lack of distribution channels. Working with domestic enterprises could resolve this problem, Jian noted.

The researcher also pointed out that China is growing into one of the world's largest powdered milk consumers due to the huge demand for baby formula.

Official data shows that the total value of baby foods sold on the mainland in 2010 reached 42 billion yuan (US$6.9 billion), and 36.8 billion yuan (US$6 billion) was the turnover from baby formula.

It is predicted that the turnover of China's baby formula will surge to nearly 80 billion yuan (US$13 billion) in 2015.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20131123000030&cid=1102


China’s pork prices fall down before Chinese New Year

At below RMB14/kg (US$2.31/kg), prices of hogs, which constitute the cost of pork, have dropped to a breakeven point. Figures from National Bureau of Statistics show that in 24 provinces and provincial-level municipalities, hog prices slipped by 7.2% in the first 10 days of January, compared to the previous 10-day period.  

On January 13, average hog prices in the country were recorded at RMB13.36/kg (US$2.21/kg), down 3.1% from the previous trading day. As a comparison, August hog prices across the nation had risen 13% since mid-May. The Economic Information Daily cited the analysis by Feng Yonghui, the chief analyst from a major hog and pork information aggregator in China, for the factors behind the usually low prices.  

Feng says that in 2011 and 2012, China had an excess capacity after farmers jumped on the bandwagon of hog farming. The other reason was pork demand came late this year for the season. Demand in southern China recovered 20 days later than usual in late December, though winter is typically the peak season for pork consumption. The Chinese government's pork reserve policy, which is meant to prevent price fluctuations, was also a cause.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 http://xumu.aweb.com.cn/20140120/628140.html


Restructuring animal feed industry in Vietnam

According to the MOA, the total value imports feed and raw material reached USD 3.0 billion in 2013, a 22.3% increase from 2012. Argentina is the biggest market with 34% of market share, followed by America with 12.7% and India with 10.8% of market share. Each year, Vietnam imported 5.84 million tonnes of raw materials, growth 16.38% per year from 2006.
According to the director of Vietnam livestock Husbandry, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Duong said, livestock sector will have land planning to produce raw material. This is long term plan to restructure plant materials towards increasing sustainable animal feed.

Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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