Australia: Big in size but not in pigs

Size, location and climate are just a few of the factors challenging Australia’s economic survival and positioning within global trade. With these drawbacks in mind how does the country’s domestic pig sector fare? Australia’s huge land area relative to its population of 24 million has made it the third least densely populated country in the world, after Namibia and Mongolia. The country’s population can be described as ‘coast-huggers’, meaning that the logistics of production and di