Reuters – Plunging demand for soyoil in China is expected to cut consumption as COVID-19 lockdowns have shuttered restaurants and canteens, according to traders and analysts. China is the world’s top consumer of edible oils, with millions of restaurants guzzling about half of the country’s roughly 17 million tonnes of soyoil. But a two-month lockdown
COVID curbs Chinese soy demand
Chinese soybean crushers slow bean buying on poor margins
USDA forecasts lower exports to China
Reuters – Chinese soybean crushers have slowed bean purchases for deliveries through August as poor margins curbed appetite, traders and analysts said. Reduced demand in the world’s top soybean buyer could cut China’s appetite for bean imports, already forecast to drop in 2021-22 by nearly 10 per cent from a year ago due to poor livestock production margins
China’s soybean imports in Jan.-Feb. beat market expectations
Reuters – China’s soybean imports in the first two months of 2022 rose from the previous year, customs data showed recently, beating market expectations. China, the world’s top importer of soybeans, brought in 13.94 million tonnes of the oilseed in the Jan.-Feb. period, up 4.1 per cent from 13.41 million tonnes in the same period
Chinese winter wheat condition could be worst in history
Grim assessment comes from the country’s agriculture minister and raises many concerns
Reuters – The condition of China’s winter wheat crop could be the “worst in history,” the agriculture minister said recently, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world’s biggest wheat consumer. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian said that rare heavy
China 2021 soybean imports slip 3.8 per cent on falling margins, weak demand
China’s soybean imports in 2021 fell from the previous year, the first annual drop since 2018, customs data showed Jan. 14, depressed by weakening demand from its massive livestock sector. China, the world’s top buyer of soybeans, brought in 96.52 million tonnes of the oilseed in the 12 months of 2021, down 3.8 per cent
China to give safety approval to more domestic GMO corn types
Beijing | Reuters – China plans to approve the safety of more genetically modified (GMO) corn varieties produced by domestic companies, the agriculture ministry said on Dec. 27. The move comes after Beijing last month proposed an overhaul of regulatory seed rules to pave the way for approval of GMO crops and as top policy
China calls for overhaul of farm subsidy rules under WTO
Beijing | Reuters – China on Thursday called for the removal of “enormous” farm subsidies in some developed countries as part of Beijing’s push for reform of the World Trade Organization. “There are very unfair rules in the agriculture sector, and enormous subsidies some developed country members are entitled to, that severely distort international agricultural trade,” Wang
Flood-hit Chinese county needs disinfectants to tackle dead livestock
More than a million animals were lost after heavy rains in the province of Henan, raising worries about disease spread
Reuters – China’s animal husbandry association urged companies July 27 to donate large volumes of disinfectants for a county in the central province of Henan, where widespread floods have killed thousands of livestock. The rotting carcasses of dead animals easily produce pathogens, but material for disinfection is insufficient, the semi-official China Animal Agriculture Association said
African swine fever and China — it’s complicated
Even as the nation’s pork herd rebuilds, new outbreaks are happening and new variants are emerging
China’s efforts to control African swine fever outbreaks among its pig herd remained complicated, with 11 outbreaks officially reported so far this year and new variants of the virus also present, an agriculture ministry official said recently. Beijing has been rebuilding its pig herd after the virus, first detected in China in 2018, slashed pig
China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu
Strain 'not a very common virus'
Beijing | Reuters — A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday. Many different strains of bird flu are present in China and some sporadically infect
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