date:Mar 07, 2014
er cent), mainly due to soft wheat (+2.8 per cent).
Meat consumption is expected to increase in the short run, thanks to improvements in the economy and of meat availability
Following two successive years of contracted beef and pork domestic supply and demand, EU meat production and consumption is expected to recover in 2014.
Some re-building of the dairy herd should lead to higher beef meat supply, while increased productivity in the pig meat sector could allow production to recover, followi