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Article: China reports major rise in import of dairy products
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 19, 2004
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China reports major rise in import of dairy products
HARBIN, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- China imported 288,000 tons of dairy
products worthy of 318 million US dollars in the first 11 months of
last year, 22 percent and 31.8 percent more from a year ago,
respectively.
Out of the total imports, milk powder made up 124,500 tons, a rise
of 27 percent, and imported whey powder was 145,300 tons, an increase
of 16.4 percent, according to Song Kungang, chairman of the council
for China Association of Dairy Products Industry on Thursday.
The dairy products sector produced 5.12 million tons of liquid
dairy products -- which made up 80 percent of China's total dairy
products output -- from January to ...