INTERVIEW: In charge of over half a million pigs

Over half a million pigs – that is the size of the herd of Master Agroindustrial, a large swine-producing company in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. Mario Faccin has spent the last 27 years building the company – and he has not finished yet. Although Brazil may have dodged a bullet in having no cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) in pigs, the country is plagued by new highly infectious variants of Covid-19 in people. Master Agroindustrial employs 1,200 people on its farms and slaughter facilit