"Stride" Japan's minister of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries Jiang tengtuo said Wednesday. Japanese beef exports are on the rise as Japanese cuisine continues to be popular abroad, NHK television reported. Last year, a total of 3560 tons were exported, totalling 24.7 billion yen (1.582 billion yuan). Both the total and the total have more than tripled in the past three years. Japanese beef has been banned from the Chinese market for nearly 20 years due to the outbreak of BSE in Japan in 2001. Brazil and other countries exported a large amount of beef to China, reaching 1.03 million tons last year.
However, due to the aging of animal husbandry workers, and cattle production has been stagnant. To stabilize domestic prices and increase exports at the same time, improving the production system is an important issue. According to Japan's economic development strategy, Japan's Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries has raised its export target of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food, aiming to reach 1 trillion yen in 2019 and 5 trillion yen in 2030.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said Tuesday that China's rapid growth in beef imports is due to the growing income level of Chinese consumers and the increasing demand for high-quality meat. In the first 10 months of 2019, China imported about 1.28 million tons of beef, up 54.5% year on year. According to China's Ministry of agriculture, the main sources of beef imported from China are Australia, Brazil and Argentina. According to the latest data of the Argentine beef export association, from October last year to September this year, Argentina exported about 800000 tons of beef, of which 74% was exported to China. China's Ministry of Commerce predicted that China's meat import will exceed 6 million tons this year.
