China should adjust the traditional pig industry (11.14)

OA show ('918 '); how to deal with the challenge of China's traditional pig industry? At the International Conference on pig industry and WTO hosted by Hechuan City, Chongqing, Chinese and foreign experts believed that the best way to meet this challenge is to increase the scientific and technological content in the traditional pig industry and take the road of industrialization China is the center of pig industry in the world in terms of pig production However, in recent years, the pig industry in most areas of the country has fallen into a low ebb, with the phenomenon of "three drops and one more" that the price of pigs has declined, the number of pigs out of the market has declined, and the number of pigs slaughtered by farmers has declined Experts in the analysis of the causes believe that there are two basic reasons for the crisis in the traditional pig industry: first, the quality of traditional pigs is too poor, and there is no market competitiveness At present, the European market requires the lean meat rate of pigs to be about 65%, while the lean meat rate of traditional pigs in China is only 50%; second, the level of productivity is not high, the feed conversion rate is low, and the economic efficiency is not high Researcher Zhang Cungen, director of the animal husbandry department of the Institute of agricultural economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, pointed out that the current situation of the production and import and export of animal products in China is not optimistic China's meat output accounts for 23.3% of the world's total output, but compared with this huge output, the export volume is very small Dr Wei Ming, manager of Asia Technology Department of PIC group, one of the world's largest pig breeding groups, and other experts believe that "WTO accession" will bring new opportunities to China's pig industry, but the impact of "WTO accession" on China's pig industry will be even greater: the pork tariff will be reduced from the current 20% to 12%, the import of pork and raw materials will increase, and the competition in pig industry will be intensified In addition, compared with foreign countries, China's pig industry has a comparative advantage in cost, but this advantage is not obvious Moreover, most of the advantages are scattered pig farmers and specialized households, and this scale-free breeding is difficult to meet the export requirements Guo Shijian, deputy chief of China's animal husbandry and veterinary general station and senior animal husbandry engineer, pointed out that the next four to five years should be the key years for China to adjust its pig industry and meet its WTO accession The key to adjust the traditional pig industry is to develop the corresponding science and technology, improve the quality of pig meat, improve the efficiency of pig production, and take the road of industrialized management It is understood that the output value of animal husbandry in China accounts for 30% of the total output value of agriculture and animal husbandry, but the investment in science and technology is only 7.2% Experts said that the development of pig industry must increase investment in science and technology, rely on science and technology for variety improvement, improve the number of piglets and survival rate of sows, improve the meat production rate and lean meat rate of pigs, shorten the feeding period, and enhance their disease resistance In addition, in order to improve production efficiency and keep a firm foothold in the international market, it is necessary to take the road of industrialized operation and build a one-stop enterprise integrating breeding, slaughtering, processing, feed production and research DHR (author:)