How China’s Giant Pig Purge Is Shaking Up the $118 Billion Pork Industry
- Large-scale hog producers to expand herds, driving recovery
- Pork prices climb to record amid African swine fever outbreak
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China’s large-scale hog farms that survived the world’s worst animal disease outbreak are expanding their herds, driving a recovery in sow numbers as early as next year, a pig conference heard.
The restocking of industrial-scale farms will result in a shift in hog production in the world’s largest pork-consuming nation, said Qiu Huaji, head of swine infectious diseases with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences’ Harbin Veterinary Research Institute. Their scale-up will lead to greater improvement in measures to protect pigs from African swine fever.