Chinese agricultural conglomerate New Hope appears to be rethinking plans for domination of the pig sector as it reduces the number of pigs it aims to breed in the next year.
The Cooperative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) has claimed that products and technologies in its development pipeline will drive revenue and productivity gains for producers.
Close to 80% of Australian pig producers have significantly increased the space afforded to sows this year and government-backed Pork CRC has praised the achievement.
Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand’s (CP) Chinese business is investing CNY3.6 billion ($531m) in a site intended to process one million pigs annually in one of the country’s less populated regions.
Two Russian companies plan to create a pig breeding cluster in the far east of the country within the next five years, designed to have a capacity for 1.2 million head of pigs, with an investment of RUB72 billion (US$954m).
Australian projects to improve pig nutrition, enhance weaner performance and increase reproduction and enrich the lives of group housed sows are at various stages of development and commercialisation.
The Australian organisation set-up to conduct research and support the pork industry has claimed it has made breakthroughs in pig and pork R&D in its first four years.
It is proving a gloomy start to the year for China’s pig producers, with low prices for hogs continuing to dog the sector. The latest data from the Department of Agriculture in Beijing showed that, as of 12 February, the national average price of RMB13.23/kg...
Meat industry association Australian Pork Limited (APL) has told globalmeatnews.com that Australian piggeries are well on the way to an almost total elimination of sow gestation stalls by 2017. It said an estimated 65% of pigmeat enterprises in 2014 were...
A slump in prices means China’s pig farmers are having a lousy run-up to the upcoming Chinese New Year festival. Industry experts have blamed the price slump on a combination of factors, including higher pig numbers and epidemics brought on by warmer...
Chinese company Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) has entered into a joint venture with Ukrainian firm KSG Agro to implement a large-scale project for the production of pork and feed crops.
China faces some key policy crossroads in the coming decade which will ultimately decide the scale of its meat production and imports, according to a leading agronomist in Beijing.
Strong seasonal demand in the run-up to Chinese New Year in February, combined with icy weather, has driven up Chinese pork prices and raised concerns about inflation in China.
A video showing an Australian pork producer and his employees mistreating their pigs has been sent to the pork producer organisation Australian Pork Limited (APL).
The voluntary phasing out of sow stalls in Australia could cost the industry around AUS$50m and result in a decrease in productivity, industry leaders have admitted.
A British Pig Executive (BPEX) delegation is visiting Beijing at
the end of the month to encourage British exports to China, the
world's biggest market for pork.
