China ramps up pig production with more large farms
For more than 30 years, China has been the largest meat producer in the world and its output continues to grow, with total meat production in 2022 totalling 92.3m tonnes.
Of this, pig meat made up 55.4m tonnes – with Chinese citizens consuming about 40kg of pork each annually, on average.
This highlights the scale of demand for pork in the country, explains Michelle Hu, deputy secretary general of the China Meat Association.
As well as being a producer of pork, China is a major importer, with 2.8m tonnes of pork and pig by-products coming in to the country last year. Most of these imports were of European and American origin.
Last year, 75,000t of pork and 53,000t of pig by-products were imported by China from the UK.
Charlotte Cunningham | Farmers Weekly
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