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China encourages companies to raise pigs overseas to plug domestic pork shortage

2020-03-16 11:33:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

China said on Monday that it is encouraging companies to build pig farms overseas to plug a severe domestic pork shortage after a worse-than-ever African swine fever slashed almost half of its pig herd.

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