China has urged rural governments to offer temporary subsidies to pig breeding f...
BEIJING - China has urged rural governments to offer temporary subsidies to pig breeding farms and large-scale producers to help stabilize hog production, as fears grow about the impact of a severe disease outbreak on pork supplies.
While the world’s biggest pork consumer has reported 114 outbreaks of highly contagious African swine fever since the disease was first detected last August, many in the industry believe it is worse than officially reported. It also urged more support for producers seeking to scale up and more land for large farms, and warned banks not to suspend or limit loans to the industry.The steps come after ministry figures showed the number of live pigs fell 16.6 percent at the end of February from a year earlier, and the number of sows fell 19.1 per cent.
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