PIGS FLY MEGA PRODUCER LIST

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MEGA PRODUCER LIST

NAME	COUNTRY	SOWS 2024	SOWS 2023	2023-2024 DIF	NOTES
Muyuan Foodstuff Co., Ltd.	China	3130000	2815000	315000	Muyuan Food Co., Ltd. was established in 1992 and went public in 2014. A pork industry chain has been formed that integrates feed processing, pig breeding, pig farming, and slaughter processing. The total assets of the company exceed RMB 190 billion ($27 billion USD), with 150,000 employees and over 292 subsidiaries. At present, pig farming business covers 25 provinces, 108 cities, and 223 counties across the country. In 2022, 61.2 million pigs were produced and 7.36 million were slaughtered.
Wens Food Group Co., Ltd.	China	1570000	1400000	170000	Wens Food Group Co., Ltd. was established in 1983 and went public in 2015. It has now developed into a cross regional modern agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise group with livestock and poultry breeding as its main business, supporting operations such as slaughtering, food processing, modern agricultural and animal husbandry equipment manufacturing, bio pharmaceuticals, fresh food marketing, and other related businesses. It now has 402 holding companies, 45,400 cooperative family farms, and 44,000 employees in over 20 provinces across the country. In 2022, Wens produced 17.91 million hogs.
Smithfield Foods/WH Group	USA	810000	885000	-75000	Smithfield is a global food company with farms, facilities and offices in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. Employs over 55,000 people who all work together to provide families worldwide with “Good food. Responsibly.®” The company ship meat exports to 4,600 customers in 40 countries around the globe. Smithfield is a subsidiary of WH Group, and these sow numbers are in addition to WH Group’s other company sow production numbers.
Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods	Thailand	1115000	1115000	0	Established in 1921, CP Group is a diversified multinational group company with three major businesses as its core including: agriculture and husbandry food, wholesale and retail, telecommunications and television. It alsoengages in more than 10 industry fields such as finance, real estate, pharmaceuticals and machinery processing. Its business covers more than 100 countries including Canada and regions, with over 450,000 employees. In 2021, global sales reached 180 billion RMB ($26 billion USD). In 2022, its China area has an inventory of 380,000 breeding sows and produced 8.5 million hogs.
New Hope	China	820000	850000	-30000	New Hope Group was established in 1982, with over 600 branches and subsidiaries in over 30 countries and regions worldwide, over 135,000 employees, and a group asset size of over 340 billion yuan ($48 billion USD). In2022, its sales revenue exceeded 270 billion yuan ($38 billion USD). New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd. went public in 1998. New Hope Liuhe has become a global trading, processing, sales company, covering feed processing, animal husbandry, food processing, financial investment. The company's business covers nearly 20 countries and regions. In 2022, 14.61 million hogs were produced.
Pipestone System	USA	390682	330070	60612	The management company, Pipestone System, was formed in 1990 and today proudly manages over 70 sow farms for 450 family farmers across the Midwest. In addition to 358,000 sows managed in the United States, Pipestone Veterinary Services also has60,000 sows in China and 43,000 sows in Mexico.
Sichuan Dekon Group	China	333200	450000	-116800	Sichuan Dekon Group was founded in 2014, and its main businesses include hog breeding, quality chicken breeding and food processing, with more than 120 subsidiaries and businesses in 12 provinces, cities and autonomousregions in China. The main operating mode of pig farming is "company+family farm". 5 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Triumph Foods	USA	409565	403304	6261	Triumph Foods, LLC was organized in 2003 by a group of the largest U.S. independent pork producers whose goal was to create a pork processing operation capable of recognizing the benefits of an integrated business model. With a workforce of over 2,800 today, Triumph Foods processes in excess of 6 million hogs each year generating over $1.6 billion USD in annual revenues.
BRF S.A.	Brazil	340000	397825	-57825	BRF S.A. is a multinational Brazilian company that owns a diverse portfolio of food products. BRF founded in 1934. BRF has 397,825 sows. One of the biggest food companies in the world, created from the association between Sadia and Perdigao, two giants of food market. The Company's sale segments include Brazil, Latin America (LATAM), Middle East and North of Africa (MENA), Africa and other segments. These segments include sales of all distribution channels and operations subdivided into poultry, pork, processed, and other sales. The pork and other operations involve the production and sale of in-nature cuts. The processed operations include the production and sale of processed foods, frozen and processed products derived from poultry, pork and beef.
Twins Group	China	550000	380000	-30000	Twins Group was established in 1998 and is a large-scale national enterprise group specializing in pig farming, pig raising services, feed sales, grain cultivation and trade, pig slaughter and deep processing. The group has over 400 subsidiaries and nearly 20,000 employees. In 2022, the group's feed production and sales exceeded 11.8 million tons, and 9.33 million live pigs were marketed, achieving an output value of 84.6 billion yuan ($12 billion USD). Twins Group has made pig farming easier by building a comprehensive and professional pig farming service platform.
Seaboard Foods	USA	336000	364000	-28000	Seaboard Foods is an integrated food company producing and marketing pork both domestically and internationally. Seaboard has processing facilities inGuymon, Okla.,and a joint venture plant with Triumph Foods in Sioux City, Iowa, as well as further processing at its co-owned facilities with Triumph Foods, Daily’s Premium Meats. Seaboard Foods has over 5,400 employees and raises/markets more than 7.2 million market pigs a year. Their feed mills produce 2.4 million tons of animal feed per year.
Zhengbang Group	China	200000	350000	-150000	Zhengbang Group was established in 1996, with four major industries: animal husbandry, plant health, food, and financial control. At present, it has more than 700 branches and subsidiaries in 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, more than 70,000 employees, and 20 enterprises in 10 countries along the "One Belt One Road" region. Its feed production, pig breeding and farming, pesticide production, veterinary medicine production, and duck breeding all rank among the top 10 in China. Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the group, was listed in 2007. In 2022, 8.45 million hogs were produced.
Fujian Aonong Group	China	150000	310000	-160000	Fujian Aonong Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd was established in 2011 and went public in 2017. Aonong Biotechnology is a high-tech agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise guided by standardization, intensification, and industrialization. The company focuses on "feed, pig farming, food" as its main business, and "supply chain services, bio pharmaceuticals, and agricultural Internet" as its supporting business, with multi-point support and coordinated development. Its market covers most provinces and cities across the country, with over 300 subsidiary companies and over 13,000 employees. In 2022, 5.19 million hogs were produced.
Guangxi Yangxiang Co. LTD	China	150000	300000	-150000	Guangxi Yangxiang Co., Ltd. was established in 1998. The main businesscovers feed, genetics, breeding pigs, pigsemen, slaughter pigs, slaughtering, deep processing, food, intelligent equipment from the farm end to the dining table end. Over the past 20 years of development, the company has achieved a leap from feed production to traditional pig farming, scientific pig farming, data pig farming. mCommitted to providing the public with healthy, safe, delicious, and convenient food, the company continues to carry out technological innovation in professional fields such as genetics, biosecurity. It has over 70 branches and subsidiaries with over 5,000 employees. In 2022, 4.8 million hogs were produced.
Techbank	China	320000	300000	20000	Techbank Food Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and went public in 2007. After 26 years of development, Techbank Food has integrated global resources, increased the value of the industry chain through technological innovation, and built a full industry chain model for agricultural and animal husbandry food from farm to dining tables. It now has multiple related business groups such as pig farming, food deep processing, supply chain, environmental protection and new energy, with more than 11,000 employees. In 2022, 4.42 million hogs were produced.
Seara Foods	Brazil				Seara Foods is a Brazilian food producing and processing company. Seara has 282,217 sows. It specializes in production, processing and distribution meat products. The company was founded in 1956. Since 2016 its parent organization is JBS. JBS S.A was established as a slaughtering business by rancher Jose Batista Sobrinho (JBS), in Anápolis, Brazil in 1953. Seara recorded net revenues of BRL 11. 8 billion ($2.21 billion USD) for the Q3 of fiscal year 2022, an increase of 22.3% when compared to the Q3 of the previous fiscal year. In 2000 they became number one pork exporter in Brazil. The company operates through three business segments namely: Beef, Chicken, and Pork. The company is also engaged in leather tanning, aluminum can production, industrial waste management, producing soap, glycerin, and biodiesel, and transportation, among others.
Miratorg	Russia	280000	280000	0	During 2022 Miratorg has further expanded its sow base and now has 280,000 sows in production. It is expanding slaughter capacity with the construction of what is said the be the biggest slaughter plant in Europe in Kursk, Russia. Miratorg was formed in Moscow, Russia in 1995. Miratorg is Russia’s largest fully integrated, farm to plate Agroholding, now trading globally. Miratorg’s key business activities are. • Crop farming • Pork production - Number 1 in Russia • Beef production- Number 1 in Russia • Poultry production – Top 10 producer • Compound feed manufacturer – 1.5 million tonnes per year. • Meat processing – Pork and beef plants are biggest in Russia. • Production of convenience and ready meals- Russia’s biggest producer. Miratorg has invested over 200 billion roubles ($2.5 billion USD) and employs over 30,000 people on its multiple farms, factories and retail shops located in many parts of Russia. Miratorg success is due to investment in cutting-edge technology, highly-qualified staff, and a properly-structured business set-up.
Aurora Alimentos	Brazil	263000	263000	0	Brazil’s third largest industrial conglomerate in the meat sector andone of the largest food cooperatives in Brazil, Cooperativa Central Aurora Alimentos (Aurora Coop) has 263,000 sows. Its headquarters are in Chapeco, Santa Catarina, Brazil. With 52 years of existence, Aurora Coop is made up of more than 100,000 families spread across 600 Brazilian municipalities. With a slaughtering capacity of 25,000 pigs/day, 1.2 million chicken/day and a processing of 1.6 million litres of milk/day, the cooperative has been growing and bringing its more than 800 products to the table of thousands of Brazilians and for more than 80 countries. According to Aurora Cooperative's 2021 financial report, their net revenue was BRL 12.7 billion ($2.2 billion USD).
Vall Companys	Spain	300000	260000	40000	The Vall Companys Group is a family-owned business Group in business since 1956 with activities to include: feed manufacturing, animal production (swine, poultry, and beef), flour milling, veterinary medicaments, merchandising and transportation. They are in all food production chain. Key figures: • Total sales : 2.297 million € • Production of pig: over 5 millions heads. • Production of poultry: 153 millions heads.. • Production of feed: 2.75 million MT • Flour: 490 thounsand MT. • Associated farms: 2.600. • Colaborators: over 11,000
Iowa Select Farms	USA	250000	250000	0	Iowa Select Farms is the largest privately owned pork production company in the world. Having 1,200 employees and 650 contractors the company markets more than 5.5 million hogs annually. Iowa Select Farms has 800 farms in 50 counties and is one of the leading economic engines to Iowa’s rural communities.
JBS USA	USA	531358	538000	-6642	JBS USA represents the North American arm of JBS® S.A., the world's leading animal protein processor with more than 240,000 team members world-wide and over 300 production units. Headquartered in Greely, Colorado, JBS USA has 67,000 team members who provide more than 206 million daily meals to consumers across the globe. JBS USA is the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. (Pilgrims), with operations in the United States and Mexico; the owner of Moy Park, a leading poultry and foods company in the United Kingdom and Europe; and the owner of Tulip Ltd, a pork and prepared foods company in the United Kingdom.
COFCO Group	China	250000	220000	30000	COFCO Group centers on agricultural grain as its core business, focusing on grain, oil, sugar, cotton, meat, milk and other categories, while also involving the fields of food, finance, and real estate. As of the end of 2021, the total assets of the group were RMB 686 billion ($98 billion USD), the annual total operating revenue was RMB 664.9 billion ($95 billion USD), and the total profit was RMB 23.8 billion ($3.4 billion USD). COFCO Jiakang Food Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COFCO Group, was listed in Hong Kong in 2016 and is the meat business platform of the full industry chain under COFCO Group. The main business includes feed production, pig farming, slaughter and cutting out, frozen and fresh pork, production and sales of meat products, and import and distribution of meat products. There are more than 100 high standard ecological pig breeding bases established nationwide, with supporting construction of multiple slaughterhouses and meat product processing factories. In 2022, 4.1 million hogs were produced.
Carthage System	USA	180400	180400	0	Established in 2000, the Carthage System is managed by Professional Swine Management in Carthage, IL. With a long-standing history of successfully partnering with family farms across the Midwest looking to invest or expand their pork production, the company is committed to helping these families remain an important part of USA food supply.
Da Bei Nong Ag. Group	China	153100	180000	-26900	Da Bei Nong Group was established in 1993 and went public in 2010. Its main business covers multiple fields such as feed technology industry, pig breeding technology industry, crop technology industry, vaccine and animal health technology industry, and agricultural internet technology industry. It currently has nearly 20,000 employees, a technology innovation team of over 3,000 people, more than 260 production bases, and nearly 300 subsidiary companies. Da You Ji Group is an enterprise platform under Da Bei Nong Group that focuses on pig farming business, which has nine major breeding platforms under its jurisdiction and 84 pig farming companies. The pig farming business is distributed in more than 20 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions across the country. In 2022, 4.43 million hogs were produced.
Frimesa Cooperativa Central	Brazil	180000	178150	1850	Frimesa Cooperativa Central is a Brazilian company in the food industry, founded in December 1977, headquartered in the state of Paraná. The Frimesa cooperative system is made up of five associated cooperatives, Copagril, LarC-Vale, Primato and Copacol, with the objective of boosting agribusiness and integrating the power of rural cooperatives, to keep producers in the field, through production, manufacturing and diversification. Frimesa has 178,150 sows. Frimesa is engaged in pork, processed meat and dairy production. The Coop has 680 employees in Parana and generates $684.57 million in sales (USD). According to Agrosuper's 2021 financial report, their net revenue was 107.645.000 BRL ($21 million USD).
Prestage Farms	USA	175000	180000	-5000	Prestage Farms was founded in 1983 byBill and Marsha Prestage, and it is a leader in both pork and turkey production. In March 2019, the company opened its newest processing facility near Eagle Grove, Iowa. Prestage produces nearly 850 million lbs. of pork annually with operating divisions across five states in USA. Recently, Prestage Foods of Iowa and Wholestone Farms have announced that they will be working togther to best utilize owned processing facilities.
Elephant	China	170000	170000	0	Shanxi Elephant Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. was established in 1998. The company's business covers industries such as pigs, poultry, feed, and food. The Elephant Pig Industry under its umbrella is the company'spig breeding sector, with nearly 100 breeding pig farms and piglet breeding farms. The new Elephant Breeding mainly involves commercialbreeding, sales, and technical services. In 2022, 2.66 million hogs were produced.
The Maschhoffs	USA	135000	150000	-15000	The Maschhoffs family farm dates back to 1851 in Carlyle, Ill. Today, more than 4 million pigs areraisedeachyear, combiningcompany farms and independent production teams within a 9-state footprint. The Maschhoffs is one of the largest familyowned pork production networks in North America.
Costa Food Group	Spain	160000	155000	5000	Costa Food Group, the meatproducing holding of Grupo Empresarial Costa, is a leader in the Spanish and European agribusiness sectors. Costa Food Group key numbers 2022: • 2,000 million Euros aggregate turnover; • 5,000 employees; • Over 850 pig farms and 400 poultry farms; • 3.5 million fattening pigs/year • Exporting to 107 countries
AMVC Management Services	USA	168000	155000	13000	AMVC, LLC, started out as the Audubon Veterinary Clinic, a four veterinarian, mixed animal practice in west central Iowa. In 1990, the vets in Audubon purchased a veterinary clinic in Manning, Iowa. With mixed animal practices in Audubon and Manning, the business is called AMVC (Audubon Manning Veterinary Clinic). Today, AMVC has over 700 employees and twenty veterinarians on staff and a swine management presence in ten states, overseeing 150,000 sows and 1.6 million market hogs. AMVC manages 42 sow farms that range in size from 1,200 sows to 10,000 sows.
Guangdong Haid Group	China	128000	150000	-22000	Guangdong Haid Group Co., Ltd. was established in 1998 and went public in 2009. It is a high-tech agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise group that covers the entire industrial chain of feed, genetics, biopharmaceuticals, smart farming, food circulation, finance, etc. After more than 20 years of rapid development, the group currently has more than 600 subsidiary companies at home and abroad with over 35,000 employees. 3.2 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Betagro	Thailand	150000	150000	0	Betagro Group was founded in 1967 under the name of Betagro Company Limited to produce and distribute animal feed. The company started its business with its first feed mill in Pra Pradaeng, Samut Prakan Province. The Group has grown substantially ever since first, by establishing a livestock production facility in Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchsima Province, and then expanding further into the integrated agricultural sector with a complete production base in Lop Buri Province, which includes everything from manufacture and livestock farming to animal breeding, from producing pigs, broilers, layer chickens and breeders to manufacturing and distributing animal health products. Betagro swine breeder farming, swine semen and fattening pig farming to collaborations with local farmers in price guarantee and contract farming schemes. These are fully compliant with internationally recognised quality standards required for effective selection, animal husbandry and advanced farm management under the prudent supervision of veterinarians and animal scientists.
Christensen Farms	USA	140000	140000	0	Christensen Farms was founded by Bob Christensen and has grown to be one of America's largest family-owned farms. Christensen Farms has nearly 1,000 employees and 1,500 contract farmers across the Midwest. Christensen Farms is part of Triumph Foods. Christensen Farms is dedicated to providing wholesome, safe, nutritious food to nearly 1 million people across the globe.
Tecon Biology	China	140000	140000	0	Tecon Biology was established in 1993 and went public in 2006. It is a large-scale agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise thatintegrates animal biological products and animal disease prevention and control, scientific breeding and farming of modern pigs, feed research and production and pig slaughter, processing, and distribution. Currently, there are over 100 wholly-owned companies, holding companies, participating companies and branches distributed throughout the country. Xinjiang Tecon Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. is a swine sector under Tecon Biology with over 4,000 employees. It is a modern agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise that integrates genetic breeding of breeding pigs, breeding and finishing of commercial pigs, research and development of farming technology, slaughter and cutting out of pigs, deep processing of meat products and cold chain distribution and sales. In 2022, 2.03 million hogs were produced.
CJ Group	South Korea	144000	137000	7000	CJ Group is a massive South Korean conglomerate that specializes in food, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, logistics, etc. CJ comes from 'Cheil Jedang', which means "first sugar manufacture”. The company was founded in 1953 and wasthe first manufacturing component part of Samsung Group. CJ Group has 137,000 sows throughout Asia including in Korea, Vietnam, China. CJ Group is looking to further expand its food division globally and has ambitions to be one of the biggest food companies in the world. The Head of CJ Foods, Eun Seok Choi has stated about CJ Foods, “We will become a globalNo.1 food company leading K-Food culture by spreading the excellence of Korean food around the world.”
Agrosuper	Chile	136000	136000	0	Agrosuper S.A. is one of the largest animal protein producer and manufacturer in Latin America. With a herd of 136,000 sows is the biggest in Chile. Founded in 1955 as an egg business in Lo Miranda, O'Higgins Region. Then, the business expanded towards the production and marketing of chicken. The poultry business is currently developed through the Super Pollo brand. In 1983 the company entered the swine business producing pork mostly for international markets. Six years later, the company entered the beef jerky manufacturing business. In addition, that same year the production and marketing of trout and salmon began. According to Agrosuper's 2021 financial report, their net revenue was CLP 3.6 trillion ($4.6 billion USD).
Guangxi Guiken Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd	China	157000	125000	32000	Guangxi Guiken Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangxi Nongken Group with 12 holding subsidiaries. It is a full chain pig breeding enterprise that integrates scientific research, pig production, feed processing, cold chain distribution, commercial circulation and technical services. Currently, it has more than 2,200 employees and assets exceeding 6 billion yuan ($850 million USD). It has the first batch of national key nucleus breeding pig farms and plans to build 25 pig farms and supporting facilities projects in Guangxi. In 2022, 3.04 million hogs were produced.
Rusagro	Russia	126000	124000	2000	Rusagro is Russia's second largest pig producer in terms of number of sows. Today total herd is 124,000 sows which are located in 3 regions in Russia, Tambov, Belgorod both in Western Russia and Primoria which is in the Far East of Russia. Rusagro was formed in Moscow, Russia 1995 initially as a sugar producer. It has grown to become one of Russia’s largest Agricultural companies with annual sales of 138 billion Roubles ($1.7 billion USD) and assets worth 239 billion Roubles ($3 billion USD). Listed on Moscow Stock Exchange, In April 2011 Rusagro was listed on London Stock Exchange. Rusagro business is divided into 5 main areas of activity. ? Crop Farming – with 675,000 Ha land. ? Pig production – fully integrated with feed mills, farm and slaughter processing. Number 2 in Russia based upon sow herd size. ? Sugar – Number 2 in Russia. ? Oils and Fats – producing vegetable oils, margarine and mayonnaise. ? Milk – manufacturing cheese, butter and dried milk products. With a mission statement of Make the life for people longer and better, Rusagro employs over 14,000 people. Rusagro business stretches from the west to the east of Russia, with major investments in land, crop production and pig production near to the Chinese border. Today the company exports crops to China and the aim is to export pig meat as well. Rusagro sells products to 80 regions of Russia and to 35 countries
Clemens Country View Family Farms	USA	115421	105000	10421	Clemens Food Group is a family owned, private company celebrating over 125 years of business within the pork industry. It has 4,000 team members. Its hog operations, Country View Family Farms, it's a network of over 50 farms that includes 18 sow farms and over 200 nursery and finishing farms that are owned and operated by independent family farms located throughout Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In addition to hog production, the company has two pork processing facilities harvesting more than 6 million hogs per year: one facility in Hatfield, PA.; and the newest in Coldwater, MI. Clemens also operates a value-added facility in Emmaus, PA., and sells a variety of fresh and value-added pork products to the retail, food service, club, convenience and international marketplaces.
Giantstar	China	110000	110000	0	Giantstar Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leshan Giantstar Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. It is an agricultural industrialization operation enterprise that integrates pig breeding, commercial pig production and feed production. After years of practice in large-scale pig farm management, the company has accumulated rich experience in pig breeding management and technical precipitation. As a large-scale integrated pig breeding enterprise in Sichuan Province, the company has significant advantages in breeding scale, breeding technology, management level and other aspects. At present, in addition to continuing to build a large-scale integrated breeding farm for self breeding and self farming within own system, the company will also integrate international agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise resources and focus on building a smart pig breeding park that integrates feed production, pig breeding and meat processing. In 2022, 1.53 million hogs were produced
Sibagro	Russia	110000	110000	0	Sibagro, based in Siberia, Russia is the latest Russian company to become a World Mega Producer with a total of 110,000 sows. Sibagro was formed in 2000 from an old state owned company based in Tomsk, Russia. Today as well as the 110,000 sows Sibagro farms 270,000 Ha of land growing wheat, barley and soya to be fed to its pigs and poultry. Sibagro is a full farm to plate company with one of its main missions being to improve the lives of people by producing tasty, healthy and affordable food, saving their effort and time they spend for cooking. SIBAGRO is constantly improving its processes, seeking to make the quality and taste of its products even better, satisfying the needs of different groups of consumers. Sibagro’s prioroties are:- • To develop export of our products • To develop the production of ready-to-cook food • To automate and digitalize our production processes • To develop crop production
Kingkey Smart Agri	China	108000	108000	0	Shenzhen KINGKEY SMART AGRI Times Co., Ltd. was founded in 1979 and went public in 1994. It is the first listed agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise in China. After 43 years of development, the company has become a modern agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise with diversified businesses such as modern agriculture and real estate. Modern agriculture is the strategic core business of KINGKEY SMART AGRI, which has been supplying Hong Kong for nearly 40 years. Currently, multiple pig industrial chain projects integrating feed production, pig breeding, pig farming, slaughtering and processing, and logistics have been established. Digital and intelligent technologies are used to build a traceable industrial chain from the farm to the dining table. 1.26 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Grupo Jorge	Spain	105000	105000	0	Grupo Jorge is one of the largest meat companies in Europe and has been dealing in the pork sector for almost 100 years. It employs over 5,000 people in its various industries, which can be found all over Spain, and exports to over 100 countries around the world. One ofthe keys to their success is traceability, which covers all processes in pork production chain, from genetics to the final sale, in order to obtain the highest quality products. Currently, Grupo Jorge has 105,000 sows, with a production rate of 3,000,000 pigs per year and a slaughtering capacity of 10,000,000 pigs / year in all its production plants, where over 6,500,000 pigs/year are cut up. At Grupo Jorge they believe in sustainability as a driving force for a better future. Their project FEEDING THE FUTURE is a sign of their commitment to society and the environment. Thanks to their photovoltaic plants, wind farms and hardwood plantations they are today a C02 neutral company.
New Wellful	China	110000	105000	5000	Hunan New Wellful Co., Ltd. was established in 2001 and went public in 2004. It is an earlier export-oriented listed company in China, controlled by Hunan Agricultural Development Investment Group Co., Ltd., with pig farming and export as its main business. After 22 years of development, the company has established a complete pig industry chain that integrates raw material processing, feed warehousing, pig breeding, commercial pig farming, pig slaughter and meat processing, and pig trading. Since its establishment, New Wellful has been engaged in the business of supplying live pigs to Hong Kong and Macao, which is one of the main live pig exporters among companies from mainland port. In 2022, 2 million hogs were produced.
Tang Ren Shen (TRS) Group	China	100000	100000	0	Tang Ren Shen Group was founded in 1988 and went public in 2011. The group's mission is to "strive for rural prosperity, create green food, and create a better life". Its business covers six major industries, including pig breeding, feed nutrition, healthy farming, pig slaughter, meat processing, and brand chain. It has established more than 100 branches and subsidiaries in more than 20 provinces across the country, cultivating multiple brands such as "Camel", "Tang Ren Shen", and "Mei Shen". In 2022, the operating revenue was RMB 26.9 billion ($3.8 billion USD), and 2.16 million hogs were produced.
Sichuan TechLex Group	China	100000	100000	0	Sichuan TechLex Group was founded in 1992. Over the past 30 years, it has developed from a single business of feed processing to a modern agricultural and animal husbandry food group that integrates feed, animal husbandry, food, and biotechnology. It has over 150 branches and subsidiaries across the country. There are five business departments including swine business, Sundaily Village, Food, Feed, and Emerging Business. The group has an annual production capacity of 4 million tons of feed and a breeding scale of over 13 million laying hens. The swine business integrates genetics, breeding, farming, slaughtering, processing, and brand sales. The group has carried out international joint breeding with Canadian company Genesus Inc. and has two new composite lines of pigs, namely "Tianfu Meat Pig" and "Sichuan Tibet Black Pig". 1.5 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Huatong Shares	China	100000	100000	0	Sichuan TechLex Group was founded in 1992. Over the past 30 years, it has developed from a single business of feed processing to a modern agricultural and animal husbandry food group that integrates feed, animal husbandry, food, and biotechnology. It has over 150 branches and subsidiaries across the country. There are five business departments including swine business, Sundaily Village, Food, Feed, and Emerging Business. The group has an annual production capacity of 4 million tons of feed and a breeding scale of over 13 million laying hens. The swine business integrates genetics, breeding, farming, slaughtering, processing, and brand sales. The group has carried out international joint breeding with Canadian company Genesus Inc. and has two new composite lines of pigs, namely "Tianfu Meat Pig" and "Sichuan Tibet Black Pig". 1.5 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Guangxi Liyuan Group	China	120000	100000	20000	Guangxi Liyuan Group was established in 1953, covering four major fields: grain, oil and food, feed processing, livestock and poultry breeding, biotechnology. Its industries are spread across 13 provinces in in South China, Central China, East China, anSouthwest China. It has more than 13,000 employees and more than 150 subsidiary companies, with an annual revenue of RMB 40 billion ($5.7 billion USD). The Pig Business Department is the core business unit of Liyuan Group, adopting a "company +farmer" business management model. After 10 years ofdevelopment, it has become a new development center and core growth point of the group. At present, the business covers nearly 50 cities, districts, and counties in South China, Southwest China, and Central China, with over 1,000 breeding base points. In 2022, 1.95 million hogs were produced.
Wuhan Golden Dragon	China	100000	100000	0	Wuhan Golden Dragon Livestock and Poultry Co., Ltd. was established in 2005, which is a professional pig farming management company. Its business is distributed in Hubei, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hainan and other places. Currently, it has 28 large-scale breeding bases under its jurisdiction, with an inventory of 100,000 sows, an annual production capacity of 2.4 million pigs, and an annual supply of 200,000 breeding pigs. 1.2 million hogs were produced in 2022
Guandong TINOO	China	100000	100000	0	Guangdong TINOO’s Food Group Co.,Ltd. was established in 2003. Thecompany's main business includesthree major sectors: livestock andpoultry breeding, feed processing, and food processing, creating a complete industrial chain of high-quality chickens and pigs from the source to the dining table. The group has an annual production of over 40 million broiler chickens and an inventory of over 100,000 breeding pigs. It has well-known brands such as "TINOO’s Food", "Feng Zhong Huang", "Feng Zhong Feng", "TINOO Premium Product , and "Riquan Nongmu". The company has more than 20 subsidiaries across the country, with over 2,600 employees. 1.2 million hogs were produced in 2022.
Bachoco	Mexico	120000		0	For the first time in the history of the Mexican pork industry, a company that has been a leader in the production of various proteins of animal origin takes the lead in this country. This is the Bachoco company, with 120,000 sows. Bachoco means "Where the water passes" in the indigenous Yaqui language. Bachoco is Mexico’s largest broiler producer and second largest egg producer. Bachoco Industries is leader in the poultry industry in Mexico and one of the ten largest poultry companies in the world. Founded in 1952, it began trading on the Mexican Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange in 1997. With headquarters in Celaya, Guanajuato. Bachoco is vertically integrated; its main lines of business are chicken, eggs, livestock feed, pork, and value-added turkey and beef products. It has more than 1,000 facilities and operations in Mexico and the United States. Bachoco, primarily known as a broiler and egg producer, entered the pork industry in 2020 with the acquisition of SASA Sonora Agropecuaria. It furthered its presence in the pork industry earlier in 2022 with the acquisition of RYC Alimentos, a meat processor and distributor mainly of beef, pork, and chicken with national coverage that participates in all the distribution channels with fresh and value-added products. Later Bachoco has completed the acquisition of Norson Holdings, a vertically integrated pork production and exporting company with operations in Sonora, Mexico. Norson had the capacity to process around 1.3 million pigs per year. Its integration consists of genetics, hog farms, feed mills, slaughter and cut facilities, value added facilities, distribution centers and owned retail shops.
Greenfeed Vietnam Corp	Vietnam	116000		0	Established in 2003, GREENFEED grew from one feed mill into an integrated agri-business segmented into Feed, Farm, Food, Logistics and Information Technology. With over 4,500 employees across Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia and Myanmar; GREENFEED provides farmers and consumers with sustainable affordable products & solutions. GREENFEED manages 116,000 sows of which 67,000 sows are owned. Of these 15,000 sows are in multiplication, with three boar studs disseminating genetic improvement. As with pig producers, the Farm and Feed segments provides chicken and duck (broilers and layers) and fish producers with technical services, breeding stock and marketing services (Food) besides feed.
Shennong Group	China	100000		0	Yunnan Shennong Agricultural Industry Group Co Ltd is a Chinabased company incorporated in 1999 is principally engaged in feed processing and sales, pig breeding and sales, pig slaughter, and freshpork food sales. The Company’s main products include feed (mixed feed for pigs and concentrated feed for pigs), live pigs (commercial pigs, live pigs and piglets, etc.), fresh pork (including white striped pork and cut meat) and pig non-staple foods (pig heads, offal, etc.) ). In addition, the Company also provides hog slaughtering services. The Company mainly conducts its businesses in the domestic market.