Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Promoting the high-quality development of the pig industry and strictly implementing production capacity control measures.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a forum on promoting the high-quality development of the pig industry on the 23rd. Minister Han Jun of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs pointed out that at present, the pig industry is facing problems such as temporarily high production capacity, fluctuations in production and prices, and significant risks. At the same time, tasks such as major animal disease prevention and control, livestock manure treatment, and slaughter quarantine supervision are daunting. There are still many shortcomings restricting the transformation and upgrading of the industry. It is necessary to strictly implement production capacity control measures, reasonably eliminate breeding sows, appropriately reduce the number of breeding sows, reduce secondary fattening, control the weight of fattening pigs, and strictly control the increase in production capacity. It is necessary to accelerate the establishment of a modern breeding system for high-quality pig breeds, strengthen the development and utilization of pig genetic resources, promote independent innovation in the pig breeding industry, and support pig breeding companies in becoming better and stronger. It is essential to steadfastly implement pig disease prevention and control, accelerate the filling of gaps in epidemic prevention in small and medium-sized breeding farms, strictly supervise pig quarantine, and ensure that there is no outbreak of regional major animal diseases. It is necessary to carry out the livestock industry feed-saving action, vigorously promote low-protein diet technology, and continue to promote the reduction of soybean meal. It is important to promote the transformation and upgrading of the entire pig industry chain, accelerate the renovation and upgrading of livestock facilities and equipment, promote the application of the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, integrate and promote advanced and applicable breeding technologies, and promote the intelligent transformation of the pig industry. It is necessary to comprehensively promote the standardized slaughter of pigs, crack down on illegal activities in the slaughter quarantine process, and actively promote the utilization of manure resources. It is important to encourage large enterprises to establish a close cooperation mechanism with small and medium-sized farmers through methods such as contract farming and trustee breeding, to drive cooperation farmers to share the dividends of industrial development.