A resident gets pork from a vendor at a market in Beijing in this file photo. China produced 24.7 million tons of pork in the first six months of 2019, down 5.5 percent from a year earlier, official data showed yesterday. Output fell as the size of the herd declined 15 percent from a year ago to 347.61 million heads, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. That was down 7.4 percent from the 375.25 million heads it reported at the end of the first quarter.SD-Agencies