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The Ministry of Agriculture for China announced that the sow-herd rose by 31 percent and the population of the growout herd by 27 percent respectively from November 2019. Increasing supply of hogs mainly from large integrated units has resulted in a decline in the price of pork by approximately 20 percent since the February peak.
The hog herd in China was seriously impacted by African swine fever (ASF) that emerged in 2018 and reduced availability of domestic pork by as much as 40 percent through 2019. Rebuilding the national breeding and commercial herds has involved restructuring favoring integration at the expense of small family farms with deficient biosecurity. China has yet to deploy an effective ASF vaccine.
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