Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Appropriately reduce the inventory of breeding sows and strictly control the increase in production capacity.

According to the Zhitong Financial APP, on July 23, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a symposium to promote the high-quality development of the pig industry. Han Jun, the Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Han Jun pointed out that the pig industry is an important industry related to national economy and people's livelihood, and pork is an important "basket" product for urban and rural residents. It is necessary to stabilize the prices of live pigs and pork, and effectively carry out various tasks to ensure stable production and supply. Currently, the pig industry faces problems such as temporarily high production capacity, large risks of production and price fluctuations, as well as the daunting tasks of animal disease prevention and control, livestock and poultry manure treatment, and slaughter quarantine supervision. There are still many constraints in promoting industry transformation and upgrading. It is necessary to strictly implement production capacity control measures, reasonably eliminate breeding sows, appropriately reduce the inventory of breeding sows, reduce secondary fattening, control the weight of fattening pigs when they are sent to market, and strictly control the increase in production capacity.