Pattern of Swine Production in China

At present, the native swine production is facing the transformation from dispersing into
collectivization, from traditional feeding into modernized management, from quantitative model
into qualitative and effective models. In some large cities and provinces along the coast, many
large-scale piggeries are founded through fully using the technological and economic superiority.
According to statistics, there are 3500 large-scale piggeries in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai,
which ranks 60% of the total slaughtered. There are more than 250 piggeries that can off take
more than 1000 pigs in Guandong province. Among of them, 43 piggeries can offtake more than
10 thousand pigs, and 13 piggeries are founded by joint venture, in which 35 production lines
each cml offtake more than 10 thousand pigs. In addition, there were I598 thousand specialized
households throughout the country in 1996, 49.361 million commercial pigs were slaughtered,
which ranked II. 7% of the total slaughtered.

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