Meat List is a service of FAO's Trade and Markets Division<http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/meat/en/> The FAO Meat Price Index* averaged just over 169 points in April, up 4.9 points (3.0 percent) from March, with month-on-month price quotation increases registered for pig and bovine meats and, more moderately, for poultry and ovine meats. International price quotations of pig meat rose sharply due to a surge in import demand in Asia, primarily in China, caused by a sharp fall in the country's pig meat production associated with the rapid spread of the African Swine Fever. Bovine, poultry and ovine meat prices all firmed reflecting an overall tightening of global meat markets. * 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. Graphs and tables<http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/meat/en/> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Meat-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(Meat-L,SIGNOFF);