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The FAO Meat Price Index* averaged 163.6 points in February, up slightly (1.2 points or 0.7 percent) from January but still 4 percent below the corresponding month last year. In February, price quotations for bovine and pigmeat increased, underpinned by robust import demand, along with limited export supplies of bovine meat, especially from New Zealand, and of pigmeat from the EU. However, poultry prices fell due largely to slower pace in foreign sales, while ovine meat prices also declined, reflecting abundant export supplies from New Zealand.

* Unlike for other commodity groups, most prices utilised in the calculation of the FAO Meat Price Index are not available when the FAO Food Price Index is computed and published; therefore, the value of the Meat Price Index for the most recent months is derived from a mixture of projected and observed prices. This can, at times, require significant revisions in the final value of the FAO Meat Price Index.

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