Nation urged to strengthen pig breeding industry
1 2021-04-07 09:38:14China Daily
Editor : Mo Hong e
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Residents buy pork at a supermarket in Hai an, Jiangsu province. Last month, China imported several thousand breeding pigs to boost pork supplies nationwide. (Photo by Zhai Huiyong/For China Daily)
Experts, company chiefs call for reduced reliance on imports
When it comes to buying and eating meat, Chinese have a clear preference for pork, favoring it over beef, mutton and fish.
However, few people pause to consider where their pork comes from, and even fewer are aware that to meet growing demand, the country imports boar semen and pigs for breeding.
March 4, 2021 12:58 pm
Danish Pig Genetics (DG) has expanded its international presence through international collaboration with expertise from the science and technology company AbacusBio, the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Aarhus University.
DG is developing its own genomic evaluation system for routine breeding index calculation across breeding programs.
The Danish Genetics Evaluation System (DGENES) will combine millions of datapoints from farm recording with genomic data in a Genomic BLUP, to produce the breeding index.
The genetic and genomic software package DMU from Aarhus University is used with technical support to ensure the successful operation of the software on internal DG computer servers.