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pig farming
Sign in to saveAlso known as hog farming, pigging, hogging, pig husbandry, hog husbandry
raising and breeding of domestic pigs
Key facts
- 1 china mainland
- 310.4 ( 36.5%)
- 2 european union
- 143.1 ( 16.83%)
- 3 united states
- 78.7 ( 9.26%)
- 4 brazil
- 40.6 ( 4.77%)
- 5 russia
- 23.7 ( 2.79%)
- 6 myanmar
- 21.6 ( 2.54%)
- 7 vietnam
- 19.6 ( 2.31%)
- 8 mexico
- 18.4 ( 2.16%)
- 9 canada
- 14.1 ( 1.66%)
- 10 philippines
- 12.7 ( 1.49%)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- animal husbandry
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- Commons category
- Pig husbandry
- topic's main category
- Category:Pig farming
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Encyclopedic overview
Large White piglets on a farm A Large White sow suckling her piglets Interior of pig farm at Bjärka-Säby Castle, Sweden, 1911
Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork: bacon, ham, gammon) and skins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pig farming” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.