China: large food companies move into pig production

22-01-2009 | Home | Article

The Chinese pork market may be the world’s largest, but a crisis like last year’s showed that China still has quite some steps to take to lift its level of food safety and hygiene. For that reason, large food companies have been starting to move into the pig production chain. The Yurun Group is one of the biggest to do so. Source: Volume 24, No. 9 Keywords: China, Yurun Group, pork processor, breeding, Topigs, Hong Kong For full article please click on pdf link below J

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