The number of pig farms in China producing fewer than 500 hogs a year plunged 75 percent from 2007 to 2020, to around 21 million, according to an industry report.

China's Meishan pig is renowned for its large litters, but it and dozens others grow slowly and are too fatty. "It takes about one year for the animal to grow to 100kg.

The team conducted a microfossil analysis of pig teeth from two of the earliest Neolithic sites in the Lower Yangtze River region of South China: Jingtoushan (8,300–7,800 years ago) and ...

The swine epidemic created severe shortages of pork, China’s staple meat. However, food-price inflation slowed in December for the first time in 10 months, figures released Thursday showed.

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...

Some producers also like to crossbreed hogs, so it may be difficult to tell what breed or breeds it is composed of. Market ...

China’s farm ministry is touting a complete recovery in pig numbers from the ravages of African swine fever by the middle of the year. Fresh outbreaks of the virus and other lethal pig diseases ...

China is so desperate to rebuild pig herds after swine fever that its banks are experimenting with loans to farmers backed by a novel asset: their hogs.

China’s pig herd will take more than half a decade to recover from a deadly virus, and even then the nation’s meat consumption won’t be the same as before, according to Rabobank International.

China says the worst of its pork crisis might be over, more than a year after African swine fever first began ravaging farms across the country. But industry analysts are still pessimistic.