The seductive promise of Vietnam’s pork sector

It’s easy to be interested in Vietnam if you are into pigs. The country is one of the world’s top ten producers of pigs and pork, it has the world’s fifth largest pig inventory and its pigmeat production is sixth on a global scale. What more is known? Vietnam has a population of around 93 million people with, according to official reports, an average pork consumption of about 20 kg per capita. Furthermore, per capita incomes are rising along with a trend towards urbanisation and modernisa