China’s sow herd falls 0.5% in Jan vs prior month – farm ministry

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s sow herd shrank by 0.5% at the end of January compared with the prior month, data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs showed on Wednesday.

The herd of 43.67 million sows was 1.8% higher than a year earlier.

(Reporting by Dominique Patton; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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