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Rising costs and diminishing returns bring new approach, Yang Wanli and Shi Baoyin report from Henan. China, the world's leading pork producer, is changing the way it raises pigs. Even a family pig ...

A Chinese official on Wednesday sought to allay rising concerns over reported sharp declines in the domestic pig breeding industry and overreliance on foreign supply, saying that China has cut ...

When it comes to buying and eating meat, Chinese have a clear preference for pork, favoring it over beef, mutton and fish. However, few people pause to consider where their pork comes from, and even ...

Three hundred thirteen-five is a beauty and sure to have beautiful babes, too. Born on March 30, the fifth piglet in litter 313, she’s an elite sow, bred to produce several generations of breeding ...

BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have bred new high-quality pig strains, named Lansi pigs, an achievement to help reduce the country's heavy reliance on foreign pig breeds. The new pig ...

The pig-breeding business has started to gain popularity among big companies in China. The country's grain trading giant COFCO Group has stepped up its investment in pig-breeding, after Wuhan Iron & ...

A total of 985 breeding pigs from the US arrived in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province in a chartered plane, providing a source for China's domestic stock breeding. This is the ...

Genome Alberta, with partners, is funding other genomic research initiatives in agriculture. One of these has the aim of ...

The Cumberland pig has not been seen in 50 years but Terry Bowes, from Wetheriggs Animal Rescue, is now working with students to breed them. His latest batch of piglets are being DNA tested to see ...