According to incomplete statistics, in the third quarter of this year, the news that "officially put into production or will soon be put into production" of the building hog farms there are six.
Let's break it down.
In late September, a total investment of 400 million yuan of Zhaoqing Ding and Agricultural Husbandry Co., Ltd. Yonggu hog breeding project officially put into production, the use of intelligent building hog barn, is expected to be up to 100,000 head of annual output.
In mid-September, news that the total investment in fixed assets of about 480 million of Hubei **** Fu Yongfu Temple building pig breeding project into the finishing stage, the project to build nine buildings hog barn, can realize the annual output of 300,000 head of hogs, is expected to be formally put into production in November.
In early September, a total investment of 188 million yuan of Luo Niushan Wanning 100,000 head of hogs ecological breeding base resumed work in full, the building under construction has been all sealed, is expected to be put into production at the end of December.
The base can raise 50,000 pigs at the same time.
In late August, Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei 26-story building pig project put into operation, triggered the industry hot debate, the discussion of the two main points: the world's tallest pig building, an investment of 4 billion.
It is understood that the project a building can realize the annual slaughter of 600,000 pigs.
Early August, Lianping Dongrui multi-storey building intelligent pig breeding project began to partially put into operation, the project is fully operational, up to 120,000 pigs per year.
Early July, Longhua Agriculture and Animal Husbandry brand new hog breeding base put into production, the base covers an area of 5,000 acres, a total investment of more than 2 billion yuan, *** counting the construction of 28 buildings, is currently the largest single hog farm south of the Yangtze River.
The above building pig project has a **** sex: investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the annual slaughter of tens of thousands! Although it is said that the pig enterprise "big business", but hundreds of millions of dollars is not a small amount of money, why these two years pig enterprises like to "send pigs to the building"? It is really to seize this wind mouth?
Why did the building to raise pigs become the trend of the industry?
Since pig enterprises have invested in the construction, it shows that the building of pigs is really profitable, the most direct and obvious benefit is to save land.
According to industry data, raising pigs in buildings can save 80-90% of the land.
As we all know, to raise pigs, you have to choose a site to grant land, in the current situation of 1.8 billion acres of arable land to strictly abide by the red line, the general pig projects want to get a plot of land and is not easy, especially pig industry, there is no tax, there is a risk of pollution, is usually not welcomed by the local community.
The building pig projects are usually accompanied by other industrial facilities, which can bring revenue to the local area and make it relatively easy to approve the land plots.
For pig companies that want to expand production on a large scale, "raising the most pigs on the least amount of land" is very attractive.
In addition to saving land, the high concentration of pig raising in buildings can reduce the cost of feed and transportation of weaned piglets to a certain extent, and because of the special nature of its management, it is necessary to rely on intelligent equipment for feeding, and there is a better control of feed intake and drinking water, thus realizing the reduction of costs and increase efficiency.
In addition, in the past two years, "carbon neutral" background, pig enterprises have greater emissions pressure.
Buildings hog farms breeding density concentration, fecal emissions, the need to put some effort here, but also can "reverse" to reduce carbon emissions.
The Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei 26-floor pig building manure treatment mode, for example, its wastewater and exhaust gas treatment system can interact with each other, after the treatment of exhaust gas can be used twice on the sewage disinfection and sterilization, ideally, it is the whole building can handle 10,000 tons of sewage per day, reducing carbon emissions equivalent to 4 million tons.
However, all of the above are benefits that are built under the high cost infrastructure of raising pigs in buildings.
Industry insiders have revealed that the building pig single square cost is about 30% higher than the flat farms, no wonder pig enterprises need to invest hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to build pig houses.
The good thing is, the building pigsty in the depreciation life has certain advantages, can be depreciated 15-20 years, spread the cost.
While flat-floor hog barns only have a depreciable life of 10-15 years.
Under all the favorable circumstances, the building pig raising spread all over the country, the southern mountainous areas of the development momentum is particularly fierce.
But we also note that since the emergence of this model of raising pigs in buildings, the industry has some questions about it.
Is the cost and biosecurity of raising pigs in buildings really a problem?
There are a lot of skeptical voices, let's discuss a few representative topics: for example, "how to solve the problem of high breeding cost under the super high construction cost", "how to control the biosafety defense line under the high-density breeding", "how to control the biosafety defense line under the high-density breeding", "how to control the biosafety defense line under the high-density breeding". "How to avoid feces and urine corrosion in building pig farms".
Breeding costs, according to Jingji Zhinong revealed that it has been put into operation building pig farming, apportionment of four passes and one leveling, civil steel structure, equipment, environmental protection facilities, supporting facilities, breeding and other costs, the investment cost of a pig is about 2500 yuan.
In addition, it also announced production results: in the first quarter of 2022, the delivery rate of its Maoming, Guangdong Province, Gaozhou building breeding project is about 88%, the completion of the fattening rate of about 95%, and the cost of production is about 14.89 yuan per kilogram.
Looking at the cost alone, the figure is on the low side in the industry.
Biosecurity, people questioned the point that under high-density farming, there is one pig infected, then there are millions of pigs infected.
This is from the internal environment.
But from the external environment, the building pig farm has only a small number of imports and exports, and closed zoning management, with a variety of technologies, basically can effectively block the spread of non-fever and other epidemics.
Till now in 2019, the building pig operation also has four years, big pig enterprises in biosecurity prevention and control above, has a set of mature response system.
There is no clear data on pig farm corrosion in the market, however, the builders should have taken this into consideration when designing their pig farms.
From the overall development trend, pig enterprises are still more inclined to go to magnify the advantages of raising pigs in buildings and overcome the disadvantages.
So, with the prevalence of building pig raising mode, will the flat farming gradually be replaced?
The answer is no!
On the one hand, the construction cost of building pig farms is extremely high, which is unaffordable for small and medium-sized pig farms, not to mention ordinary farmers.
On the other hand, China's current hog production capacity has been basically restored, although the big hog enterprises are still expanding, but by the capital, land and other aspects of the limitations of the future does not have unlimited expansion conditions.
Conclusion
From the point of view of the long-term development of the industry, the farming industry needs to improve and innovate, and the building of pigs is not an attempt.
After the market continues to practice, building pig raising can indeed promote the intensive development of pig farming, but also can make pig enterprises in a certain period of time to greatly expand production.
But the promotion of this model also needs to be considered in a comprehensive manner, after all, the building of pigs on the capital, infrastructure, equipment, personnel have very high requirements.
On the whole, whether the building raising pigs for the farming industry's new wind mouth, but also rely on the market for a long time to verify the answer.
What do you think?