Deep in central China’s Hubei province, two vast 26-storey buildings tower over neat vegetable gardens — housing, not for newly urbanised local residents, but hundreds of thousands of pigs.
The “pig skyscrapers” in the rural outskirts of Hubei’s Ezhou city are the most extreme example of Chinese livestock companies’ adoption of multistorey industrial farming, a model they are now taking abroad.
Muyuan Foods, which is the world’s biggest pork producer by sales and raises pigs in buildings up to six storeys high, is working with Vietnamese agriculture business BAF to launch construction this year of high-rise hog houses in the south-east Asian nation.
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