Colombia: Evolution of pig production in 2022

In 2022, a total of 9,658,204 pigs were recorded in Colombian territory, of which 59% corresponded to animals from technical productions, 17% from commercial industrial farms, 14% from commercial family farms and 10% from home farms. The departments with the highest concentration of pigs were Antioquia, Valle del Cauca and Meta, representing almost 50% of the country's pigs. Technified production, which was the most representative with 5 710 266 animals, consisted of 224 040 breeding sows, 36 549 replacement sows, 3689 breeding boars and 5 445 979 growing and fattening pigs. There were 192,673 pig holdings, with a share of 0.4% for technical production, 2.1% for commercial industrial production, 18.6% for family commerce and 78.9% for home production. Although home farms (152,069) account for most of the global total, the number of pigs counted was very low (1,011,131 animals) compared to the inventory of pigs housed on technified farms (5,710,266 animals), which paradoxically ...