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projections of production and consumption of livestock products
were presented and discussed in Chapter 3, together with the
implications for the growth of demand for cereals and oilseed
proteins for feed. This section provides some further discussion
of the likely evolution of the main parameters and other issues
underlying the projections of production. In the first place,
the trend for the share of the pig and poultry sectors in total
meat production to increase is likely to continue (Table 4.15).
In particular, the growth of the poultry sector would continue
at high rates, though lower than in the past, while that of the
pig sector may be in the future much less rapid than in the
past, because of the expected slowdown in East Asia, the region
which accounts for 90 percent of total pigmeat production.
Possible developments in China account for much of this
slowdown, as discussed in Chapter 3.  Concerning the main
production parameters, the incre