Whether they buy Irish food or take it off Ireland’s competitors on global food markets, Chinese consumers have become a defining ingredient of the agri-food industry’s fortunes. Next year will only reinforce this, according to the 2020 outlook published by Teagasc on Tuesday. This is most obvious in the pigmeat sector, where the decimation of China’s industry by African swine fever has opened a gaping hole in the global market. The largest herd in the world has lost half of its sows to the disease, taking 240 million pigs out of production on an annual basis – as much as…

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