The pig industry has entered a critical period of "upgrading", and large-scale breeding is the inevitable trend of the pig industry in the future. Large-scale farming is the foundation of modernization of pig industry. With the intensification of market competition and people's higher and higher requirements for the quality of livestock products, it is difficult to adapt to the scattered farming of thousands of households. Large-scale farming can not only increase economic benefits and enhance the ability to resist market risks, but also be the necessary basis for implementing standardized production and improving the quality of live pigs. Only when pig breeding reaches a certain scale can service guidance, scientific and technological application, disease prevention and control, product sales and quality control be serialized, specialized and standardized, so as to meet the needs of market development and ensure the breeding efficiency and the quality of pigs and their products. In short, there is scale to benefit, and there is scale to have a market. It is the general trend to vigorously develop large-scale farming in pig industry. Take the fluctuation of pig market since the second half of 2005 as an example: the selling price of fattening pigs has dropped from 7 yuan -8 yuan to 6 yuan, and many pig farmers are in trouble, and some pig farmers are losing money. However, some large pig-raising bases rely on scale advantages to achieve "although the market has declined, the benefits are still considerable". Its synergistic effect mainly comes from the following aspects: piglets are self-bred, and the cost of purchasing piglets per pig is reduced by more than 50 yuan; The purchased feed raw materials are large in quantity and low in price, and the feeding cost of each pig can be reduced by about 50 yuan; The pigs sold are of good quality, large quantity and high price. Compared with the market price, the price per kilogram is higher than that of 0.5 yuan, and the selling price difference of a pig is 50 yuan. Taken together, compared with ordinary farmers, the benefit of raising a fattening pig in a large-scale farm is more 150 yuan, and after deducting the labor and infrastructure costs of a large-scale farm, the benefit is about 100 yuan. The scale advantage of pig industry is increasingly obvious.

What should we pay attention to in developing pig industry?

Developing pig breeding is a good way for farmers to increase their income and get rich, but to achieve good benefits, we need to grasp the key links:

The first is to seize the opportunity. In the case of market fluctuation, we should pay attention to four periods, namely, trough period, development period, peak period and recession period. The trough period in the fluctuation of pig market is the best time for pig farmers to enter. At this time, the prices of piglets and breeding pigs are low, and the input cost of developing pigs is low. When the pig market gradually walks out of the trough and enters the development period, pig farmers should speed up the expansion scale; When the pig market enters the peak period, pig farmers should slaughter pigs as soon as possible to obtain the best benefits; When pig production enters a recession, pig farmers should focus on reducing stock, improving quality and strengthening management, and wait for the opportunity to achieve greater development. The key to control the development of pig production in several different periods depends on the accumulation of experience and the understanding of information. Agricultural products that are interested in or are engaged in pig industry need to observe, understand and accumulate the development of pig industry in peacetime, so as to have a more accurate grasp of the present situation, trend and law of pig industry. ?

The second is moderate scale. Large-scale pig raising involves many problems such as capital, technology, land and environmental protection. It needs to be done step by step, not overnight. However, agricultural products still need to raise pigs on a moderate scale according to their actual situation. This is because, if the scale of raising pigs by farmers is too small, even if the benefits of raising pigs are good, it is difficult to obtain obvious benefits by raising one or two pigs; When the benefit of raising pigs is not good, it is the first to bear the brunt and suffer the most, so it is difficult to work in vain. Under the current rural economic conditions, it is appropriate for farmers to raise about 30 pigs and invest about 20 thousand yuan. In this way, in a normal year, according to the annual slaughter 100 pigs, the profit of each pig can reach 80 yuan, and the profit can reach 8000 yuan. Conditional farmers, it is best to engage in self-reproduction, self-education, so as to reduce the cost of piglets, reduce the occurrence of epidemics, and significantly improve the efficiency of raising pigs. ?

The third is disease prevention and control. In recent years, swine epidemic disease has the characteristics of atypical symptoms, mixed infection and difficult diagnosis, and the drug resistance of swine epidemic disease has obviously increased. The cost of disease prevention and control has become one of the important expenses, and even the key factor to determine the benefit of raising pigs in some cases. If the pigs raised by farmers are sick, the cost is as little as ten yuan and as much as dozens of yuan. Once the disease occurs, the loss is immeasurable. Therefore, pig farmers should change the concept of "emphasizing treatment over prevention" and establish the concept of "putting prevention first", and start with the basic links such as pig farm location, pig house design, programmed epidemic prevention and scientific feed formula to prevent the occurrence of epidemic diseases to the maximum extent. Once the pig has an epidemic disease, it should be isolated in time, diagnosed accurately, and used rationally to minimize the loss.

Fourth, good varieties and good methods. Excellent breed is an important factor to obtain the benefit of raising pigs. Compared with ordinary pigs, the price difference per kilogram of improved pigs is around 0.5 yuan. With good varieties, there must be good laws. Extensive feeding methods not only limit the production level of improved pigs, but also cause great losses and waste. The breeding of fine-bred pigs pays attention to scientific feed formula, the enclosure is clean and hygienic, and daily management is also very important. For example, thoroughbred pigs are sensitive to external environmental stimuli, and unhealthy stimuli such as restless feeding environment, environmental mutation, feed or rough treatment are easy to cause stress reactions of pigs, which seriously affect the growth of thoroughbred pigs. Therefore, while developing the production of improved pigs, farmers should learn the breeding technology of improved pigs through various ways, so that improved pigs can be matched with good methods and strive to achieve the best pig-raising benefits.

The fifth is joint production. Small-scale pig farmers can establish pig production and marketing associations and cooperatives, strengthen information exchange, and implement unified seed supply, unified feed, unified epidemic prevention and unified sales, thus connecting small-scale production of thousands of households, realizing large-scale production to a certain extent, and achieving the "win-win" effect of reducing costs, reducing epidemic situation, raising prices and increasing benefits.