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New funds to boost hog numbers may take months

14 July 2011

A new Chinese government policy to promote pig breeding through investment in large-scale pig farms and offering a subsidy of Rmb 100 per breeding sow is unlikely to have a substantial impact in bringing down pork prices this year. In the newly-launched "Rural China" section of the latest China Confidential report, published today, we explain that the root cause of skyrocketing pork prices is the culling of sows that took place during the 2010 trough in the hog cycle.

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