China’s 26-story pig breeding tower (File)
New Delhi. Pakistan took a beating while competing with the world’s fastest growing economy. India’s main neighbor and arch-enemy Pakistan had taken the help of donkeys to boost its economy. Donkeys were bred and exported on a large scale in this country. Pakistan’s stalwart friend China was the biggest buyer of its donkeys. A Pakistani minister had said that donkeys are the backbone of the Pakistani economy and increasing their production would increase the country’s GDP. The whole world is looking at what has happened to Pakistan, which dreamed of increasing GDP with the help of donkeys. Now China has also begun to follow the lines of its friend Pakistan. China is also India’s neighbor and bitter enemy. This country has been several steps ahead of its friend Pakistan in this matter. To give its economy a boost, China has now taken support from the pigs. To do this, China has built the world’s largest 26-story pig breeding tower.
China to build giant pig towers across the country
Dragon has just built a 26-story pig-farming skyscraper on the outskirts of the city of Izhou, on the south bank of the Yangtze River in central China. China has described it as the world’s largest independent pig farm. In this, a target has been set to produce 12 lakh pigs in a year. The purpose of large-scale pig farming is to improve food production and reduce reliance on sugar in agricultural products. China wants to increase agricultural competitiveness around the world through pig farming. At the same time, it wants to become an exporter by reducing its imports. That is why China started it as a national campaign and now such pig farms are being built all over the country.
China’s pig breeding tower looks like a NASA command center
This pig training tower in China looks like the NASA command center. It is as tall as the Tower of London with Big Ben. Uniformed technicians are stationed here and the pigs are monitored with high-quality cameras. The first batch of pigs arrived here at the end of September. They were then taken to dozens of upper floors via these industrial elevators. All these pigs will be kept in this building from insemination until farrowing. They will be exported when the ability to bear children ends. Around 12 lakh pigs will be produced from this giant tower in a year. In fact, agricultural land has become scarce in China. Food production is lagging behind. In such a situation, pig farming and supply has become a strategic imperative for China.
single block for pigs
Each floor is assigned to a young man within this building that looks like a monolithic apartment block. The building acts as a self-contained farm for the different stages of the pig’s life. That is, there is a separate area for pregnant pigs, a separate building (parlor) for rearing pigs, a separate place for lactation and a separate place for fattening pigs. The material used to feed the pigs is transported on a conveyor belt to the top floor, where it is collected in huge tanks. More than a million pounds of food a day is delivered to the lower floors via high-tech feeders, which automatically distribute food to the pigs at their base. The life stage, weight and health of the pigs are then determined.
China’s long association with pigs
China has a long love affair with pigs. For decades, many Chinese rural families have raised pigs in their backyards. These pigs were considered valuable livestock, not only for their meat, but also as a source of manure. Pigs also have cultural significance as a symbol of prosperity in China. Because there has been a tradition of serving pork on historic occasions and on special occasions. China alone consumes half of the world’s total pork consumption. No nation eats more pork than the dragon. Pork prices here are closely watched as a measure of inflation and carefully managed through the country’s strategic pork reserve.
There are government meat reserves that can stabilize prices when supplies are low, but pork prices are higher than in other major countries where pig farming was industrialized long ago. Dozens of other gigantic factory pig farms have sprung up in China in recent years as part of Beijing’s push to close that gap. A cement maker here has now been turned into a pig farmer. However, China’s current pig farming is still decades behind most advanced countries.
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