Case Study: Chicken finds its way onto more Chinese plates

China’s chicken meat production and consumption will continue to grow in 2021, but at a slower pace than 2019. China’s 2021 chicken meat production is forecast at 15.3 million mt, which is a 3% increase from the estimated 14.9 million mt in 2020. With the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) across China in 2018, a large protein deficit emerged, making room for expansion by China’s poultry industry (18% and 8% growth in 2019 and 2020, respectively). As China’s swine herd and pork suppl