May 25, 2007
 

China's Ningbo focuses on industrialised pork production

Ningbo has one of the highest industrialised pork production in China, according to a city spokesman.

The metropolitan coastal city in Zhejiang province boasts a population of six million people. Up to 40 percent of local pork demand is supplied locally.

About 90 percent of the city's pig production has been industrialised, compared to just 20 percent nationwide. The city has invested much effort to industrialise its pig production in recent years.

The city's current pig production is 1.3 million heads per year, with more than 13 companies producing more than 10,000 hogs per year and more than 3000 enterprises with hog farms of 50 heads and above.

To bring the city's pork industry forward, five pork integrators in the city of Ningbo have come together this week to work out measures and ways to improve production quantity and quality.

The five big hog farms included Zhenhai's Livestock Farm, Yuyao's Kanghong Livestock Husbandry Co. Ltd, Ningbo's Chunguang Husbandry Farm, Jinzhou's Meihu Husbandry Farm and Cixi Yuxin Live Hog Husbandry Farm.

Their combined live hog output totaled 44,000 heads in the first four months of 2007.  The  five farms have a combined 70,000-head inventory with estimate sow population of 7,000.