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LACKING PORK, CHINESE FARMERS RUSHED TO RAISE PIGS AS BIG AS BUFFALOES
Science and Technology | 07/10/2019 03:38 PM
Not much in the movie "Okja" is much, when a giant pig breeding company to maximize profits. In China, some farmers are raising "massive" pigs to cope with the domestic shortage of pork.
A tourist rides a pig weighing about 750 kg in Zhengzhou. Photo: AP
Specifically, according to Business Insider, in Nanning, capital of Guangxi province, a farm owner is raising pigs weighing over 500kg - pigs the size of both buffaloes and cows. Giant pigs weighing more than 500 kg can sell more than 10,000 yuan, equivalent to 1,400 USD (more than 30 million VND), three times higher than the average monthly income of people in the province.
Let's take a look at the situation of giant pigs in the world. Adult pigs usually weigh from 136kg to 317kg. But the largest pigs in the world are recorded as Big Bill pigs in Tennessee, weighing more than 1,000 kg. Big Bill had to lose weight to be able to come to the Chicago World Fair in 1933 because it broke his leg due to such a huge weight of the body.
Most oversized pigs eventually die from health complications. In 2004, another giant pig, Ton Pig, bred in China, died of lack of exercise due to obesity. It weighs nearly 900kg.
The giant pigs bred in Nanning are raised for slaughter, they are becoming more and more necessary for the farmers here, when pork shortage caused by the African swine flu pandemic is devastating. Pigs in Asian countries.
China is the world's largest pork consumer, accounting for more than half of global pork consumption. Small farmers and large pork corporations in the country are aiming to raise bigger breeds of pigs, trying to increase the average weight by 14%, to increase profits by 30%.
The Chinese government has warned the supply of pork will be "extremely serious" in the first half of 2020, due to a shortage. Chinese farmers had to kill one third of their livestock supply. Pork shortage is estimated at up to 10 million tons.
Science and Technology | 07/10/2019 03:38 PM
Not much in the movie "Okja" is much, when a giant pig breeding company to maximize profits. In China, some farmers are raising "massive" pigs to cope with the domestic shortage of pork.
A tourist rides a pig weighing about 750 kg in Zhengzhou. Photo: AP
Specifically, according to Business Insider, in Nanning, capital of Guangxi province, a farm owner is raising pigs weighing over 500kg - pigs the size of both buffaloes and cows. Giant pigs weighing more than 500 kg can sell more than 10,000 yuan, equivalent to 1,400 USD (more than 30 million VND), three times higher than the average monthly income of people in the province.
Let's take a look at the situation of giant pigs in the world. Adult pigs usually weigh from 136kg to 317kg. But the largest pigs in the world are recorded as Big Bill pigs in Tennessee, weighing more than 1,000 kg. Big Bill had to lose weight to be able to come to the Chicago World Fair in 1933 because it broke his leg due to such a huge weight of the body.
Most oversized pigs eventually die from health complications. In 2004, another giant pig, Ton Pig, bred in China, died of lack of exercise due to obesity. It weighs nearly 900kg.
The giant pigs bred in Nanning are raised for slaughter, they are becoming more and more necessary for the farmers here, when pork shortage caused by the African swine flu pandemic is devastating. Pigs in Asian countries.
China is the world's largest pork consumer, accounting for more than half of global pork consumption. Small farmers and large pork corporations in the country are aiming to raise bigger breeds of pigs, trying to increase the average weight by 14%, to increase profits by 30%.
The Chinese government has warned the supply of pork will be "extremely serious" in the first half of 2020, due to a shortage. Chinese farmers had to kill one third of their livestock supply. Pork shortage is estimated at up to 10 million tons.