You may not know that Denmark is famous for pork on this planet today, so let's talk about it today, how Denmark is famous for raising pigs.
In many Nordic countries, Denmark can be said to be an outlier, other brothers and sisters have achieved economic freedom by relying on high technology early on, but he loves his own acre and three-quarters of the land, relying on pigs to make his country's economy equal to that of many Nordic countries.
In this small country with a population of only five million, it can export more than 28 million piglets a year, and even account for 30% of global pork exports at its highest level.
Raising pigs is a big deal in Denmark.
For farmers who want to open farms, two mandatory rules must be met.
First: to raise pigs in Denmark, there must be more than three hundred acres of land.
This is done not only for the physical and mental development of the pigs, but more importantly in Denmark. Although the land cannot be inherited, privatization is allowed, but it must be purchased through a special market, which is to reject speculators and hoard the land to maliciously seize the living space of farmers.
Second: In Denmark, pigs must also be trained and obtained certificates.
That is to say, if you want to raise pigs in Denmark, you must first read ten years of basic education to prove that you are not illiterate, and then go to the Agricultural College for further study, read the theory course for half a year and then conduct a year of field training, after the training is passed, you will return to the Agricultural College again to learn six months of theoretical courses, and after successfully mastering the theoretical knowledge, you need to go to the farm to observe and operate again for eighteen months.
After this, it is necessary to carry out a year of agricultural breeding management course training, and after a joint inspection by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education, you can successfully get a breeding license and start your own farmer's journey, which is no less difficult than obtaining a doctorate in the mainland.
How much do danes care about raising pigs? Why do their pigs occupy the international market?
In order to ensure the smooth profitability of the hard-to-build breeding base, in Denmark they also set up a special organization called the Agricultural Service Center, where they will assign a certain number of farmers to special technical personnel to connect their daily production.
For example, they will regularly conduct blood tests on pig farms, conduct serious disease screening, and once they find that pigs are sick, then the Danish animal testing organization will immediately go out to catch the sick pigs to a dedicated anatomical inspection agency for thorough testing, in order to avoid infectious diseases and destroy the Danish breeding ecology.
In addition, in Denmark, if you want to kill pigs, you also need a certain amount of technology.
In addition to our above-mentioned regular training, in order to avoid the private slaughter of pork in Denmark, all adult pigs must go to the slaughtering agencies designated by the Danish government, such as the Crown Group in Denmark, as a veteran enterprise established as early as 1970, he has undertaken more than 60% of the slaughtering tasks in Denmark, and its finished products are up to 90% of the unified export, going to overseas tables.
As one of the most modern slaughterhouses in the world, the Danish Crown Slaughterhouse handles up to 100,000 pigs per week.
Here, all slaughtered pigs need to be sent to the waiting base for a collective silence of two hours, and during these two hours, the base will constantly release chemical gases to keep these pigs calm and avoid the taste of the pigs due to excessive fear and tension during the slaughtering process. After waiting, the pigs will be gradually transported by the conveyor belt, and after the moment of strong current, the lost consciousness will be directly unloaded into eight pieces at the same time, and then followed by the conveyor belt to be manually sorted until it is delivered to the table.
So why is it that among the many creatures in the world, Denmark chooses pigs to vigorously develop?
When it comes to pig farming in Denmark, we can trace it back to the mid-19th century.
At that time, Denmark, as an honest and responsible agricultural country, counted on exporting some grain to the outside world for some money to spend all year round, but who knew that the good times were not long, north America was sparsely populated, and with the gradual development of North America, a large number of cheap and high-quality affordable grains entered the European market, which suddenly shook the foundation of Denmark.com.
Fortunately, the Danish leaders of the time soon found that with the development of British industrialization, more and more people went to those places to work and seek opportunities, resulting in a peak in Britain's demand for bacon, bacon and other foods.
But this bacon is the old business of the Germans, in order to ensure the interests of its own country, Denmark immediately decided not to compete with the Germans into meat products, and directly found another way to supply the Germans.
Through the example of Danish pig farming, we can see what are the characteristics of Nordic development? And why do you say that if you look at the pigs raised by the Danes, you know why Northern Europe is so rich?
In order to ensure the quality of its own pork in Denmark, on the basis of the original EU food regulations, a more stringent Danish testing regulation has been introduced, and it is under the blessing of double testing standards that Danish pork has also become a representative of high-quality pork in the world. In addition, Denmark is extremely strict about the use of veterinary drugs, and they will track and observe a certain group of medicated pigs, including the type and dosage of prescription drugs injected by these pigs, and strive to eliminate the abuse of antibiotics.
In addition, the breeding institutions in Denmark must be inspected and managed by Denmark every three years to ensure that these institutions comply with the food and drug regulations in Denmark and eliminate the decline and deterioration of product quality. In this way, high-quality pork has also knocked out the Danish brand image.
Today, 140 countries around the world import bacon from Denmark.
In addition, in Denmark, in the entire pork trade chain, in addition to the necessary training guidance for breeding, slaughtering and other links, the sales link also needs to carry out relevant training, and must be accompanied by training documents, which is also a variety of strategies, so that Denmark, a country in Europe, is leading the aquaculture industry.
It is worth mentioning that they not only often carry out technological upgrades, such as anesthesia before slaughter, electric slaughter, etc., but also update the relevant review agencies at all times to ensure that the quality is never degraded.
In addition, the Danes specialize in an industry, do not turn to other directions after the breeding industry becomes bigger, but have money to engage in industrial upgrading, do not seek direction dispersion, only seek stability and stability, after a series of technical iterations, the slogan of Danish pork was naturally launched, and received the love of people around the world.
And northern Europe is so rich today, and that's why. They took advantage of the advantages brought by the early industrial revolution, and after choosing their own specialization direction, they cultivated for decades or even hundreds of years, formed their own refinement system within this professional field and gradually optimized and raised the threshold, through a relatively mature concept and system to grab food with those countries that are still in the exploration stage. For example, Denmark's Novo Nordisk and Lenbek specialize in medicine; Oticon and Resonic specialize in hearing aids and acoustics, and gradually occupy a certain position in the industry. In such northern Europe, nature is very rich.