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BEIJING, Could 14 (Reuters) – China’s sow herd grew 1.1% in April from the earlier month, and 23% over the corresponding month a yr earlier, state tv stated on Friday.
The rise comes regardless of recent winter outbreaks of African swine fever on farms within the north and northeast, whereas prime pig producers slaughtered many poorly performing sows within the first quarter.
Hog herd inventories have climbed again to ranges in regular years, it added, citing knowledge from the agriculture and rural affairs ministry.
The sow herd in April stood at 97.6% of the end-2017 degree, the information confirmed.
China has labored to revive herd numbers after the lethal African swine fever first hit in 2018, however the menace lingers.
It has 180,000 giant pig farms, up from 161,000 at the start of final yr, stated agriculture ministry official Xin Guochang, with the numbers of their new child piglets up 58.8% from final yr, in line with state media.
Pig producers have centered extra on manufacturing effectivity, regularly changing sows of low productiveness with high-productivity ones, Xin added.
The variety of sows eradicated at giant farms in April grew 18% over the earlier month, and was additionally up 96% from the corresponding month a yr in the past, the official stated.
(Reporting by Hallie Gu and Dominique Patton; Enhancing by Clarence Fernandez)
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