Pig production is the livelihood of 2.5 million people in Peru

(Agraria.pe) Pig production is the livelihood of 2,500,000 Peruvians; Furthermore, the pig production chain (producers, suppliers, transporters, wholesalers, sausage factories, Horeca channel, markets and supermarkets) generates 625 thousand direct and indirect jobs. This was indicated by the manager of the Peruvian Association of Pork Producers (Asoporci), Ana María Trelles Ponce, who explained that our country has 3 different types of pig farming: technified production, moderately technified production, and family breeding. Technified pig production, represented by 100 companies, produces 1.5 million pigs every year that represent 180 thousand tons (75% of the national production of pork); it also has 93,000 reproductive females (mothers). This activity takes place on the coast (Piura to Tacna) and the jungle (Madre de Dios, Iquitos, Tarapoto) and generates a direct and indirect workforce of 75,000 people. In the case of moderately technical production, there are approximately ...