In Europe, there is one building-type pig farm left

Published 2024년 7월 3일

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A pig farm in Viljandi, Estonia, designed in the 1970s by Russian engineers and formerly owned by the Finnish group Ekseko, is still in operation and is the last of its kind in the European Union. The farm produces around 280,000 piglets annually, with about half being fattened on site and the rest sold to other fattening farms in the country.
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Much has been written about large pig farms in China, which are multi-story buildings in which pigs are raised. Here we see these exploitations as something surprising that happens in third countries. Well, in the EU there is still one exploitation of this type in operation, according to the German press. It is located in Viljandi (Estonia). It was designed by Russian engineers in the 1970s and, before the collapse of the USSR, it served to supply the Saint Petersburg/Leningrad metropolitan area. In the early 1990s, it was acquired by the Finnish ...
Source: Agrodigital

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