MOA “Su Tai Lean Pig Leap Program Now Formally Initiated Recently, the project of the “Establishment and Demonstration of Su Tai Lean Type Pig Production System had formally listed in the MOA Leap Program. On August 9, the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Jiangsu Province convened the press releasing conference of “Su Tai Lean Type Pig Leap Program” and “Su Tai Pig” extension conference in Suzhou. This marked the formal implementation of the “Su Tai Lean Type Pig Leap Program”. Mr. Liu Liren, Vice Director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry attended the conference and delivered a speech. He required that we should promote development through reform, strive to build Su Tai Pig industrialized production system, focused on 3 links: ① Grasp firmly the internal reform of seed pig farm. Suzhou Su Tai Pig Breeding Center should implement stock share operation, let enterprise operators, related research achievement owner and enterprise employees who have hold the share to continue to deepen the reform, improve internal management system, and innovate enterprise operation system. Let enterprises burst even greater livability, gain even faster and better development, maintain the intellectual property right of Su Tai Pig, and enable Su Tai Pig this famous brand more prosperous. ② Grasp firmly the construction of Su Tai Pig reproduction and multiplication system. We shall form a Su Tai Pig reproduction and multiplication system with seed pig farm as the nucleus, the provincial pig multiplication farms as the net and Su hybrid pig farms as the extension. ③ Grasp firmly the implementation of “Su Tai Lean Type Pig Leap Program”. The project responsible units should strengthen coordination, division of labor, taking the project implementation as its opportunity, establish an industrialized production chain of Su Tai Pig pork through the extension of key technology of Su Tai Pig, through the matched technologies of modernized feeding management and slaughter and processing technologies, through the establishment of quality meat marketing networks. Thus we can increase the grade of pork quality, realize the shift from traditional live hog production system to modern quality pork production system. Su Tai Pig, the first lean type live hog breed in Jiangsu Province, has been listed one of the 28 extension projects of the “State Agricultural Science and Technology Leap Program”. At present, live hog market has already realized the shift from total volume shortage to surplus. Consumers require that live hog should no only have fairly high lean percentage, but also maintain the style of native pig breeds. “Su Tai Pig” has been developed by using Taihu Pig, a famous pig breed in Jiangsu Province, as the basal maternal line, introduced the blood of Duroc boar as its paternal line. This new pig breed has gone through 8 generations in 12 years and has condensed industrious labor of a large group of science and technology people. Su Tai Pig has maintained the excellent genetic gene of Taihu Pig and has the characters of high reproductivity, good meat taste, and roughage tolerance. Meanwhile, through the introduction of foreign blood, it has the good characters of foreign excellent pig breeds, such as high lean percentage, faster growth rate, etc. In addition, Su Tai Pig has significant hybrid vigor and extension potential. Therefore, as soon as the Su Tai Pig is released, it has aroused broad attention of many people throughout the country. Now, this breed has been extended to over 20 provinces and autonomous regions, At present, the Jiangsu Province has approved to build 20 Su Tai Pig multiplication farms, the whole province has 3000 heads of reproductive sows. According to estimate, if a farmer raises one Su Tai Pig, he can increase his income by 60 RMB as compared with that of other pig breeds. Source: www.sinoswine.com