How much land and how much capital are needed to raise 100 pigs, and can it be profitable?

Pig farming, like other agricultural production, has a relatively long cycle. Individual pig farming has little competitiveness but high costs. Raising 30 to 50 pigs brings little profit and high risk. So how much land is needed to raise 100 pigs? How much capital is needed? Is it profitable? Here is a detailed summary as follows:

How much land is needed to raise 100 pigs

1. Land: about 4 mu

2. Buildings: 4 pig houses plus surrounding walls of 50×52m, a warehouse, a rest room, a disinfection and changing room, a gate, and a pig loading platform, totaling about 80,000 yuan (usable for more than 10 years).

3. Well drilling: 20 cubic meters of water per day, 30,000 yuan

One-time investment: 110,000 yuan.

How much can you earn raising 100 pigs by self-breeding

1. Sow cost: calculated at 5 jin of feed per head per day. The feed used for sows is cheap. One year of 365 days * 5 * 0.9 yuan/jin = 1642 yuan. Adding about 100 yuan for epidemic prevention or other expenses, calculate at most 2000 yuan. Theoretically, one sow produces 2.45 litters per year. Here calculate at 2 litters, with an average of 10 piglets per litter, calculated at 8. The cost of one piglet is 2000 yuan (annual cost of the sow) / 16 = 125 yuan/head.

2. Feed cost: Before 30 jin, piglets generally eat creep feed (pelleted feed). Feed is calculated at 2 yuan per jin. Before 30 jin, they are basically still in the suckling period. It is almost one jin of feed for one jin of gain. Calculated at 1.2 jin of feed per jin of gain, the cost for a piglet to grow to 30 jin is 30*1.2*2=72 yuan, calculated at 80 yuan. From 30 jin to 200 jin, finishing pigs eat compound feed. Theoretically, the average feed-to-meat ratio is 3:1, meaning growing from 30 jin to 200 jin (200-30=170) uses 510 jin of feed. Even in a poorer pig farm, 600 jin of feed is enough to grow to 200 jin. Feed is calculated at 1.1 yuan per jin (concentrate 2.5 yuan*20%=0.6 + corn 0.7 yuan/jin*80%=0.56 yuan, actually only 1.06 yuan). Eating 600 jin of feed costs 660 yuan, meaning raising one pig from birth to 200 jin uses 660+80=740 yuan.

3. Profit analysis: 125 yuan (cost of the sow producing the piglet) + 740 yuan = 865 yuan. At a market price of 7 yuan per jin, the profit is 7 yuan*200 jin = 1400 yuan - cost 865 yuan = 535 yuan/head. Raising 100 pigs can earn 53,500 yuan.

How much can 100 piglets earn?

1. Piglet cost: calculated at 50 jin for purchased piglets (piglets like this are similar in price to larger pigs, calculated at 8 yuan per jin), 50*8 yuan = 400 yuan cost. Actually, piglets of around 10 jin are the most expensive, possibly around 12 yuan, but that is only 120 yuan per head, and the cost of feeding them to 50 jin is even lower.

2. Feed cost: From 50 to 200 jin for slaughter, at most 550 jin of feed is used, meaning 550*1.1 yuan/jin = 605 yuan cost.

3. Profit analysis: The total cost is 350+605 yuan = 955 yuan. The profit is that a 200 jin finished pig can sell for 1400 yuan - 955 yuan = 445 yuan. Raising 100 pigs can earn 44,500 yuan. Although the profit is somewhat less than self-breeding and self-raising, raising them this way can certainly reach slaughter in 4 months. Because the purchased piglets are 50 jin, one more batch of pigs can be raised each year.

In summary, the profit from pig farming is not very high. Although in recent months, due to the impact of African swine fever, pork supply has been lacking and prices have risen rapidly, this trend will not last long and will return to normal, so that the general public can afford to consume it. Therefore, whether pig farming can make money is hard to say.

Factors in the economic benefits of pig farming

1. Management: First is the management of people, and second is the feeding management of pigs. A well-managed pig farm can save feed, avoid feed waste, and maximize the conversion of invested feed into pig weight gain. Also, fewer pig diseases occur, which can save on vaccine purchase costs as well as routine preventive medication costs and treatment medication costs.

2. Feed: Feed is the foundation of pig farming and a key factor in the success or failure of pig farming. Under normal circumstances, feed costs account for 70% to 80% of pig farming costs, so how to reasonably select, use, and develop feed, improve feed conversion efficiency, and reduce feed consumption plays a decisive role in improving the economic benefits of pig farming.

3. Breed: Breed is the primary condition for improving the economic benefits of pig farming. The quality of the breed directly determines the pig's production performance, feed consumption, feeding cycle, and feed-to-meat ratio, among others. Numerous trials have shown that raising excellent crossbred pigs can increase weaned piglets per sow per litter by 1 to 2 heads, increase weight gain by 10% to 30%, and improve feed utilization by 10% to 15%.

4. Epidemic prevention: Once an epidemic breaks out on a pig farm, it will certainly cause major economic losses, or even catastrophic disaster. Looking at existing pig farms, the problem of weak awareness of epidemic prevention is widespread. Epidemic prevention work is still blind, arbitrary, and based on luck. In many farms, pig herd diseases occur continuously throughout the year, rising one after another and recurring repeatedly. The losses are severe and the lessons are profound.