Livestock China’s Live Hog Market Face Uncertainties, Nears Breakeven Point According to the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs’ (MARA) recent official survey, hog slaughter output was up 41 percent in April. Through the first four months of 2021, production has increased by nearly 40 percent from a year ago. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) noted that a total of 171.4 million were slaughtered in the first quarter or about 57 million head per month. While MARA’s numbers are often opaque, the uptick for April suggests about that around 80 million hogs were butchered, bringing the year-to-date total through the first four months to just under 252 million head. Surveys with producers and traders last week con...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
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