Recently, due to the approach of the Chinese New Year consumption season, hog prices have rebounded sharply. On the one hand, it is due to the arrival of the Chinese New Year consumption season, and on the other hand, it is also due to the obvious increase in the overall cost of hog farming.

In a farm in Dalian, the reporter learned that even if the cost of hog farming increased, but because of the good price of hogs, the current farming profit per pig can still reach 1500 yuan to 2000 yuan. The better farming profit makes the hog production capacity recover rapidly.

By the end of November 2020, China's hog production capacity recovery exceeded expectations, with the stock of hogs reaching 400 million head and the stock of breeding sows reaching 41 million head, and the hog production capacity recovered to more than 90% of the same period in 2017 before the African swine fever epidemic.

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It is understood that, at present, the overall higher level of profitability of hog farming, hog production capacity to recover rapidly, and some large-scale enterprises are also taking advantage of this "super hog cycle" for technological upgrades, safety upgrades, industrial chain upgrades.

Industry sources told reporters that in recent years, China's hog farming industry scale, standardization level accelerated, the annual slaughter of 500 head of large-scale farms more than the proportion of hog slaughtered from 26% in 2007 to more than 50% at present.

Meanwhile, under the support of artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things and other cutting-edge technologies, at present, China's hog farming scale enterprises in animal nutrition, biological epidemic prevention, scientific breeding and other important aspects of breeding have made great progress, and profitability has also increased significantly.