Italy: beef demand soars, mad cow disease problem disappears
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Last Update: 2002-12-05
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Introduction: ismea, an Italian agricultural research group, said that with strong measures taken to stop the spread of mad cow disease, Italian sellers are full of confidence in the red meat market This year's beef demand is expected to soar by 10% over the previous year to 1.4 million tons Since the discovery of the country's first case of BSE in January last year, a series of BSE cases have continued to occur, and until now the Ministry of agriculture has regularly released such information The income of Italian farmers has declined sharply as the consumption of beef has plummeted Referring to the EU's efforts to strengthen the beef labelling system so as to improve the traceability of beef cattle throughout the food chain from farm to table, ismea analyst Giovanna Ferrari said, "since the BSE crisis in Italy, we have taken more control measures (to curb the spread of BSE) and finally recovered the consumption of beef by consumers Confidence " According to the data of ismea, in 2002, Italian beef imports will increase by 25.6% to 377000 tons, and domestic production is expected to increase by 0.5% to 939000 tons It said Italian beef sales are expected to total 1.5 million in 2002, compared with just 1.4 million last year, which would represent a 6% increase In a report, ismea also said that Italy's beef exports this year will increase by 20.8% over the previous year to 128000 tons (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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