China News Service, Harbin, November 5 (Reporter Wang Nina) "This year, the pig production in Heilongjiang Province has returned to the same level as the best year in history." said Li Lianrui, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

  On November 5, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Heilongjiang Province announced that this year, Heilongjiang Province will focus on pig production like grain production, support stable agricultural production and supply, vigorously develop large-scale breeding, strengthen the prevention and control of African swine fever, and rapidly recover pig production capacity.

The province's live pig inventory reached 13.21 million, an increase of 18.4% year-on-year, and has recovered to more than 90% of the best year in 2017.

  In the first three quarters of this year, the province’s live pig inventory was 13.21 million, of which 1.29 million reproductive sows, an increase of 19.8% year-on-year; 12.7 million pigs were slaughtered, an increase of 1.2% year-on-year, achieving a year-on-year change from "negative" to "positive" , And there has been no African swine fever epidemic for 21 consecutive months.

  In order to restore the production capacity of live pigs as soon as possible, this year, Heilongjiang Province has deeply tapped the production potential of the existing nearly 1,900 large-scale pig farms, increased the stock production capacity, and increased the production capacity of more than 20% throughout the year.

  At the same time, the province has also promoted the "company + farmer" production model to promote the development of small-scale farmers to a moderate scale, and fully release the production capacity of 2.8 million pigs in 52 large-scale farms newly built last year, and accelerate the release of large-scale production. Enterprises and social capital invested in 44 farms under construction with a production capacity of 4.9 million pigs.

  In terms of new production capacity, this year, the province has also accelerated the implementation of plans for large domestic companies to build new pig breeding projects here to accelerate the growth of new production capacity.

  During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the province arranged 30 million yuan to give 400,000 yuan or 800,000 yuan a one-time reward to designated slaughter plants with an average daily slaughter of more than 200 pigs; for breeding sows of more than 2,000, they will be fattened during the epidemic A one-time reward of 300,000 yuan or 600,000 yuan will be given to farms that have accumulated more than 10,000 pigs for slaughter.

  In the first September of this year, the province sold 338,000 tons of pork to other provinces, and 950,000 fattening pigs were transferred point-to-point. The proportion of export sales increased from 23% at the end of 2019 to 34% to ensure the domestic market supply.

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