January 6, 2025

Muyuan's smart pig farm in Henan, China, estimated to produce more than one million pigs last year

The Neixiang Muyuan Meat Industry Complex, Muyuan Group's largest and most technologically advanced smart pig farm, is estimated to produce over 1.7 million pigs in 2024, Yuan Hebin, deputy general manager of the Henan-based Chinese pig farming giant, told China Daily on December 30.

Located in Neixiang county, Henan province, the roughly 187-hectare facility, which integrates feed processing, pig farming and slaughtering, has 21 six-story buildings, each capable of producing 100,000 pigs per year, Yuan said.

"Compared to traditional single-story hog houses, this facility increases land utilisation rate by 4.3 times," he added.

According to Yuan, an intelligent feed processing center next to the breeding area produces 720,000 tonnes of feed annually, which is transported to the hog houses through an intelligent pipeline system. Once ready for market, the pigs are directly transported to the slaughterhouse within the complex by unmanned transport vehicles.

- China Daily