Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Strengthening the normalization and precision regulation of pig production capacity to promote the healthy development of the pig industry.

On May 18th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a video conference. The meeting emphasized the need to accurately grasp the current situation of the development of the pig industry, to effectively control the production capacity of pigs on a regular and precise basis, and to implement measures to reduce capacity and promote transformation. It also called for consolidating the upward trend of pig prices, promoting pork consumption, guiding livestock farmers to rationally assess the future market situation, and preventing blind expansion and overproduction. The meeting called for various measures to reduce production capacity, to revise provincial implementation plans promptly, to strengthen guidance and risk warning for large pig enterprises, to strictly control the addition of production capacity, and to guide small and medium-sized livestock farmers towards differentiated development. It also emphasized the need to regulate the order of pig production and operations, to continue to reduce feed consumption in livestock farming, to guide slaughterhouses to conduct refined processing, and to promote the transformation and upgrading of the entire industry chain.