China Q1 pork output at highest for a quarter in five years

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BEIJING, April 18 (Reuters) - China's first-quarter pork output rose 1.9% from a year earlier to 15.9 million tonnes, data showed on Tuesday, hitting the highest for a quarter since the fourth quarter of 2017.


China slaughtered 198.99 million hogs in the quarter, up 1.7% on a year ago, data from the National Bureau of Statistics also showed.
(Reporting by Qin Ningwei and Dominique Patton; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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