China's pig farming past and future: 10 viewpoints explained at a glance

1 Changes in the pig farming industry over the past five years
1) Over the past five years, small-scale farmers have gradually decreased, the scale of farming has increased, pig health has deteriorated steadily, pigs have become harder to raise, roller-coaster pig prices have made pig farmers more rational, and environmental protection pressure has grown greater and greater.
2) The pig farming industry is moving from the farming end toward the consumption end, that is, food safety, including taste.
3) The quality of pig farming personnel, especially managers, is improving, with greater emphasis on raising reproductive performance.
4) As pressure from land and environmental protection grows greater and greater, the space for pig farming development has clearly shrunk.

2 Problems encountered by the pig farming industry over the past five years
1) For large pig farms, land is a factor limiting development, but for some family farms, land may not be a constraining factor.
2) In addition to the land factor, there is also the people problem, and the people problem will give rise to new technologies and management issues.

3 The future direction of the pig farming industry
1) In the future, pig farms will need not formulators but nutritionists. Feeding the pigs' needs back into feed research and development through nutritionists is one direction.
2) The livestock industry needs to focus on two key words: cost and value-added. To grasp these two factors, opening up integration of the industry chain is one direction.
3) The challenges facing pig farmers are mainly environmental pressure and fierce internal competition in pig farming. In the future, improving meat quality and gaining consumers' trust will be the main way to relieve competitive pressure.
4) Whether large pig farms or small pig farms, all must move in the direction of automation and mechanization.