Led by the official, Wen's, New Hope Liuhe, Dabei Nong and other 25 pig enterprises added

China is the largest pig consumer, eating 700 million pigs every year, but what is less known is that 90% of these pigs have foreign ancestry
.
Due to the short growth cycle of imported seed sources, high feed conversion rate, high lean meat rate, and more suitable for commercial breeding, China's native seed sources have lost in the market competition
.
The long-term introduction of breeding has led to the vicious circle
of "introduction-degradation-introduction" in China's breeding pig industry.
"Soil chips" are inefficient and endangered, and "Du Changchang" and other great-grandparents have long relied on imports, which directly affects the quality, speed and efficiency
of production capacity recovery after African swine fever in China.
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The General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of National Seed Industry Formation Enterprises" this year, and 25 pig breeding enterprises have been included in the short board formation
.
At present, enterprises such as Dabei Nong, New Hope Liuhe, Shunxin Agriculture, and Wen's Shares are cultivating their own "pig chips"
.
In order to have long-term economic effects, the industry recommends establishing its own pig breeding system, making good use of domestic breeding pig resources, joint breeding, and making up for shortcomings
.
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90% of the pigs out of the pen have foreign ancestry UBH China Feed Industry Information Network - based on feed, serving animal husbandry

"The annual number of pigs in China is about 700 million heads, of which 90% have foreign ancestry
.
" Song Weiping, chairman of the Beijing Seed Industry Association and president of Dabei Nong, told the Beijing News that domestic pig breeds mainly include three categories
: outer three yuan (Duroc, Changbai pig, big white pig), inner three yuan (the mother is a local pig, the father is the source of imported breeds), and soil pigs (80%-90% of the seed sources come from local ancestry).
The most introduced species are Duroc, Long White Pig, and Great White Pig, which are from the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom, and are commonly known as "Du Chang"
in the industry.
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According to the "In-depth Analysis and Future Investment Forecast Report of China's Breeding Pig Industry (2022-2029)", the market size of China's breeding pig industry in 2021 will be about 112 billion yuan; 24,462 breeding pigs were imported from abroad, an increase of 60% year-on-year, of which 37% came from the United States, 33.
2% from Denmark, 25.
6% from France, and 4.
2% from the United Kingdom
.
According to Gong Huazhong, president of the breeding division of New Hope Liuhe Co.
, Ltd.
, the current price of introducing a breeding pig in China is about
10,000 yuan.
According to this calculation, the cost of introducing breeding pigs in China in 2021 will exceed 240 million yuan
.
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Zhang Mao, head of breeding at the Pengcheng Food Branch of Beijing Shunxin Agricultural Co.
, Ltd.
, said that China is currently the gene bank of the world's best breeding pigs, not only all lean breeding pig genes in Europe and the United States, but also 72 domestic local breeds and 15 breeding strains, the number of imported breeding pigs in pure breeds can breed sows accounted for less than 1%, relying on China's own breeding source can fully meet market demand, but there may be individual production indicators can not reach the world's advanced level
。 Compared with imported varieties, although China's native pig breeds have the advantages of coarse feeding, strong disease resistance and good taste, there are also disadvantages such as high fat content, low lean meat rate, long growth cycle and poor economic benefits, which do not meet the current market needs
.
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In August 2022, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of National Seed Industry Formation Enterprises", and 25 pig breeding enterprises, including Wen's shares, New Hope Liuhe, Dabei Agriculture, and Shunxin Agriculture, were included in the short-board formation
.
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"To make up for the short board, it means that although the country has its own pig breeding system, the strain is not good enough, and it is necessary to fully tap the high-quality germplasm resources
.
" In addition, the domestic pig breeding technology is acceptable, but there is a gap in the production, performance and quality of its own strains, which should be further enhanced
.
Song Weiping believes that many enterprises have lost their breeding ability
in the process of continuously introducing breeding pigs.
There are also many enterprises that lack breeding awareness, excessive pursuit of economic effects, and then form a dependence on
foreign seed sources.
"For the sake of long-term economic effects, we must establish our own breeding system, make good use of domestic breeding pig resources, and make up for this shortcoming
.
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"Introduction-degradation-introduction" vicious circle UBH China Feed Industry Information Network - based on feed, serving animal husbandry

"As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, sporadic American Hampshire breeding pigs were introduced to the country, but no market
was formed.
During the planned economy period, due to the difficulty of eating meat, the pig industry had not yet formed, and no breeding pigs
were introduced.
After the reform and opening up, domestic pork consumption increased, and farms began to introduce foreign breeding pigs to expand
.
After 2000, the pig consumption demand is strong, the pig industry is large-scale, a large number of breeding pigs have been introduced, and the emergence of 'Du Chang' just meets the market demand and also drives the rapid development of
the domestic breeding industry.
Song Weiping said
.
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In Gong Huazhong's view, the reason why foreign breeding sources dominate the domestic pig market is related
to the economic advantages of varieties.
"The offspring propagated by imported breeding pigs have a short growth cycle, high feed conversion rate, and high lean meat rate, which is more suitable for commercial breeding
.
" Domestic breeds breed a year weight of about 80 kg -100 kg, and imported breeding of commercial pigs can grow to 120 kg in half a year, and the lean meat rate of imported breeding pigs is high, which is more in line with the current people's eating habits
.
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"The United States, Denmark and other countries have formed a relatively complete breeding system, and the selected varieties have excellent
performance.
In order to accelerate the expansion of production capacity, domestic enterprises will import breeding pigs
from these countries.
Zhu Zengyong, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told the Beijing News reporter, "Taking the Danish breed as an example, the number of effective piglets provided by each sow can reach more than 36, while the current average in China is less than 20
.
" What worries him is that foreign breeding companies will not sell the best breeding pig resources to the country
.
Because domestic enterprises do not pay attention to strengthening the maintenance of breeding pig breeding performance, the performance will deteriorate, and then form a vicious circle
of "introduction-degradation-introduction".
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Gong Huazhong explained the reason behind this current situation
.
The breeding cycle is long, the input is large, the effect is slow, a breeding pig often has to go through three generations of testing, one generation needs to be bred for 8-10 months, and three generations have to wait until 30 months to test performance
.
This long-term investment has brought great pressure to enterprises, and has also caused a situation of heavy introduction and light breeding in China
.
"New Hope Six and have their own breeding pigs, and the indicators are not lost to foreign countries, but it took us 5 years to achieve this level
.
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Liu Yonghao, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of New Hope Group, once proposed during the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2021 that at present, there are problems such as
imperfect breeding system, serious shortage of investment, serious shortage of modern breeding farm infrastructure that meets the conditions, lagging application of new technologies, shortage of technical personnel, weak foundation for breeding pig determination, small scale of individual projects, serious disease threats, and insufficient development and utilization of local pig resources.
"Soil chips" are inefficient and endangered, and "Du Changchang" and other great-grandparents have long relied on imports, which directly affects the quality, speed and efficiency
of China's production capacity recovery after the impact of African swine fever.
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Can co-breeding break the board? UBH China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on feed, serving animal husbandry

In order to grasp the autonomy of "pig chip", New Hope Liuhe began to build a breeding system in 2008, and has bred about
12,000 purebred pigs.
Each purebred pig farm with a size of 1,500 heads can expand the coverage capacity to reach 3 million heads
.
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Shunxin Agriculture's "Xiaodian" breeding pig has won the industry's first well-known trademark, which is one of the research and development of China's breeding software GBS
.
At present, Shunxin Agriculture has a national core breeding farm, which has provided nearly 1 million breeding pigs to the society in the past 40 years of breeding history, and the breeding promotion of two varieties has won the first prize
of the Agricultural Technology Extension Award issued by the Beijing Municipal Government.
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The combination of production, education and research has always been Song Weiping's long-term adherence to the breeding concept
.
In 2016, Dabeinong established Tangshan Dabei Agricultural Breeding Company, which has been cooperating
with universities and research institutes for breeding projects for a long time.
In 2020, the Great Northern Agricultural and Pig Research Institute was established, introducing a number of doctoral talents to carry out research
in breeding, digital pig raising, molecular breeding and other aspects.
Nowadays, Dabeinong has a breeding and breeding system for additive and American pigs, providing more than 100,000 high-quality purebred pigs per year, which can provide excellent germplasm genetic resources
for domestic pig breeding.
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According to the data, the United States, Canada, Denmark and other breeding countries have their own joint breeding system, and joint breeding has become a social consensus
.
According to Gong Huazhong, all breeding pig enterprises in Denmark are members of the association, and the genetic information of breeding pigs can be exchanged between enterprises to prevent inbreeding, forming a good breeding society and business atmosphere
.
This time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs supports the seed industry formation enterprises, which is a promotion
for joint breeding.
Zhang Mao also proposed that a joint breeding mechanism has been established in the industry, hoping that breeding pig enterprises can jointly exchange genetic material, share data, and jointly promote the construction
of China's breeding system.
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Zhu Zengyong suggested that breeding pig breeding needs the joint development of various subjects, not only between enterprises and enterprises, enterprises and scientific research institutes, upstream and downstream feed enterprises, slaughtering and processing enterprises should also join in, so that joint breeding can effectively promote the development of
the entire breeding system.
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