MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS

摘要

Moving to levels not registered since the early 1990s, the FAO trade-weighted international meat price index reached an average of 102 points in 2004, up from 2003's average of 90 points. Early year price pressure resulted from animal disease and foodsafety concerns which limited exportable supplies from some of the major Asian markets, affected by Avian Influenza (Al), and North America in the wake of both Al outbreaks and reports of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), As markets gradually opened over the course of the year, international meat prices, particularly for poultry and beef, witnessed some price easing; however, the 2004 average poultry and beef prices were up 22 and 14 percent respectively from their levels of a year ago.