April 17, 2013

South Korea's pig output has exceeded 10 million heads for the first time in history.

Statistics Korea revealed that the number of domestically-raised pigs reached 10.10 million heads in the first quarter, up 1.25 million (14.2%) on-quarter.

Production dropped to as low as seven million in the aftermath of the 2011 foot-and-mouth disease. There were only eight pig farms with over 10,000 heads in 1983, but this has expanded to more than a hundred for the first time in Q2 2012.