BEIJING -- China is building industrial pig farms near its urban areas, reversing years of policies to relocate the livestock over waste concerns, as the government prioritizes food security over the
environment after African swine fever decimated its herds.
Top pork producer New Hope Liuhe is also planning a multi-story farm in Pinggu that will produce 150,000 pigs a year. Another 6 farms are being rebuilt and expanded, the Beijing municipal government told Reuters. Home to more than 20 million people, Beijing must produce 890,000 pigs a year by 2022 to meet a tenth of its pork needs, according to a plan drawn up this year, about three times what it raised last year.
Pigs were then trucked to urban slaughterhouses to satisfy consumers' appetite for fresh pork, but a ban on moving live hogs to curb the African swine fever spread disrupted that business model.Unlike most of the farms that were shut, the large-scale operations require less land per pig produced and are more efficient and less labor intensive.
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