Fresh data from China’s state media indicates the world’s largest pork producer is recovering from multiple years of African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks. The news comes after the disease wiped out 40% ...

Multistorey pig rearing is rare outside China. A six-storey building known as the “Schweinehochhaus” or “pig high-rise” that was established in then-communist East Germany closed in 2023 after ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) -A surge in African swine fever infections in China is set to reduce hog output later this year, farm managers and analysts said this week, pushing up prices in the world's top pork ...

China is so desperate to rebuild pig herds after swine fever that its banks are experimenting with loans to farmers backed by a novel asset: their hogs. The country’s swine herd fell steeply after ...

Since the nineteen eighties China has been modernizing its pork industry and upped production. China now has some 700 million pigs, half of the world population, most on huge farms. To manage such ...

World's top pork producer relies on foreign breeds Some companies already improving pig performance independently High cost, lack of experience make improvements challenging CHIFENG, China, May 27 ...

Prices of everything seem to be going up this year. Pork prices in China are doing the opposite as a different sort of health crisis eases. That’s tough news for the global pork industry, but a ...