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 The animals bought by C.P. Pokphand Co, China's fifth largest pig
producer, arrived on a charter flight in August and spent over a
month in quarantine in Xiangyang city in central Hubei province,
according to a report on the website of China's General
Administration of Customs.
It is the first import of live breeding stock since African swine
fever began spreading through China's hog herd over a year ago,
reducing demand for breeding animals as farmers tried to fight off
the deadly, contagious disease and making quarantine of imported
pigs more complicated.
But with the disease estimated to have reduced the world's largest
hog herd by more than half, many producers are now speeding up
expansion, both building new farms and restocking previously
infected ones.
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CP chief executive Bai Shanlin told Reuters last month it plans to
raise 10 million pigs a year by 2021, up from 4 million currently.
Only a handful of countries are permitted to export live swine to
China, which has at times imported up to 10,000 pigs a year for
genetic improvement of its herd.
The customs database shows imports of breeding pigs from Denmark in
August were worth 20.9 million yuan ($2.94 million).
(Reporting by Dominique Patton, editing by Louise Heavens)
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