# Poultry consumption expected to increase in China

> USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service expects China's broiler production to rise by 700,000 mt to 11.7 million mt this year. Poultry consumption is forecast to grow about 1% in 2018 as demand recovers from the H7N9 outbreaks of 2016-17 and vaccination campaigns have improved confidence.

- Date: 2018-04-02 · published 2018-04-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65658-poultry-consumption-expected-to-increase-in-china
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Higher Chinese poultry output and consumption are a modest, mostly bearish signal for global chicken prices, while stronger domestic demand also supports feed use.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- euromeatnews.com: https://euromeatnews.com/Article-Poultry-consumption-expected-to-increase-in-China/1039

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