Rise in Number of Cattle, Pigs in Korea During Q2
SOUTH KOREA - The number of livestock in South Korea rose on-year in the second quarter of 2018 due to more calves being bred, government data showed Thursday.
19 July 2018
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Yonhap News Agency reports that the data by Statistics Korea showed there were 3.06 million cattle in the country at the end of June, up 1 per cent, or 31,000 head, from a year earlier.
Pigs moved up 1 per cent on-year, or 117,000, to 11.3 million.
The rise in the number of cattle was caused by more calves being bred in the country in the wake of price hikes, the data showed.
Compared with a year before, higher market demand caused more cattle and sows to be bred, which pushed up overall numbers, the statistics office said.
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