Wannian Pig

Wannian Pig

　　Wannian Pig is a specialty of Wannian County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. The county ranks first in Jiangxi in both large-scale pig farming and pig slaughter rates.

　　Wannian County has a long history of pig breeding, and pig production has always been one of the pillar agricultural industries in the county. In 1995, it was designated by the Ministry of Agriculture as a base for supplying lean-meat pigs to Hong Kong. There are now over 80 large-scale pig farming operations.

　　The county currently has 74 registered pig enterprises, including Shanzhuang, Yiyou, Jixing, and Huyun, and has built 24 pig farms with a scale of 10,000 pigs each. In 2010, the county's total pig slaughter reached 723,000, of which 610,000 were three-way crossbred pigs, showing increases of 3.2% and 7.3%, respectively, compared to the same period last year. The pig inventory was 424,000, including 36,200 breeding sows, up 11.2% and 13.9% year-on-year, respectively. Meat production totaled 52,072 tons, an increase of 3.5% year-on-year. The livestock industry achieved an output value of 866 million yuan (including 836 million yuan from pigs), up 3.7% year-on-year.