Pigmeat output in Poland is popularly on the up while cattle farmers are slimming down their herds.

Pigmeat output in Poland is popularly on the up while cattle farmers are slimming down their herds, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

USDA's attache in Warsaw forecasts that Polish spread numbers will climb to 185 million at January 2003 from 1.75 from January this year, and that pork production in 2003 will rise according to 80000 tonnes to 1.71 million tonnes.

Pork has traditionally been the dominant harvest of Poland's meat industry anyway, unless this emphasis has increased from one side of to the other the last year as