Livestock New Report Raises More Questions About China’s Pig Inventories A December report by a journalist from the livestock news service Nong Cai Bo Dian, based in Guangdong Province, casts doubt on China’s hog and sow inventories. Nong Cai Bo Dian, which loosely translates as the Agricultural Wealth Book, sent out its reporter Zeng Huiling in December to investigate the findings of a report released this past October, which looked at the finishing hog and sow inventories for 10 major producing cities/counties. With the exception of two localities, one of which is located in Shandong Province and the other in Sichuan Province, the eight others are in the southern central and southeastern provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian,...
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