China sold 24,000 tonne of pork from January to April with an export value of $ 79.79 million, recording a 14.1 per cent drop, the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the Customs administration as saying.
The average price, however, increased sharply by 96.4 per cent year on year to $ 3,396 a tonne, it said.
The devastating earthquake of May 12 that ravaged Sichuan province in southwest China is expected to affect the pork export further, the news agency reported.
Sichuan, battered by the deadliest quake in three decades, accounts for 11 per cent of China's total pork output and nearly one third of the exports.
