On the morning of October 18, 15 high-quality breeding boars were auctioned at the National Breeding Pig Measurement Center of Huazhong Agricultural University, with a starting price of 10,000 yuan per head. The No. 618 bidder from Guangdong won the No. 15 auction pig at a price of 28,000 yuan and became the "bid king" of this auction. This breeding pig is a Duroc breeding boar from Zhengda Kangdi Core Breeding (Meizhou) Co., Ltd., numbered 20241010, and won the first place in the comprehensive index of the 2024 National Breeding Pig Competition (Hubei Division) and the second place in the appearance evaluation of the expert group.
The 15 premium breeding boars in this auction are all from the 2024 National Breeding Pig Competition (Hubei Division). Previously, the competition received a total of 262 boars from 22 breeding farms in 9 provinces and cities, and after 4 months of rigorous measurement and scientific evaluation by the Breeding Pig Quality Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Wuhan), 15 high-quality boars were finally selected for public auction according to the "comprehensive index score", and their corrected daily weight gain exceeded the average level of the same period by about 34g, the feed conversion rate was reduced by about 0.05, and the age of 100kg body weight was shortened by about 3.7 days. In addition, the competition also selected 106 high-grade breeding boars for secret bidding.
Professor Zhao Shuhong, a post scientist of the national pig industry technology system and dean of the College of Animal Science and Technology and the College of Animal Medicine of Huazhong Agricultural University, introduced that among the breeding boars sent for testing this year, there are 82 boars with a daily weight gain of more than 1,000 grams, accounting for 31.3%, which is the highest performance level in the history of centralized measurement.
It is understood that since 2001, the breeding pig measurement center of Huazhong Agricultural University has collected and measured 6,350 boars sent by 77 pig breeding enterprises in 19 provinces, municipalities (autonomous regions) across the country, and selected 411 high-grade breeding boars for public auction, and 2,516 high-grade breeding pigs for secret bidding. After 24 years of continuous breeding, the daily gain of the measured correction was increased by 190g compared with 2001, the average commercial pig added 120 yuan of economic benefits, more than 20 breeding pig brands were cultivated, and more than 1,000 pig testers were trained, and the total social and economic benefits were more than 100 billion yuan.
Gao Yi, Secretary of the Party Committee of Huazhong Agricultural University, introduced that the mainland is the world's largest country in pig production and pork consumption, and the pig industry is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Breeding pigs are the "chips" of the pig industry and the strategic resources for the development of the pig industry in the mainland.
In recent years, the school has focused on the five major bottleneck problems that restrict the high-quality development of the mainland pig industry, such as "low breeding efficiency, frequent occurrence of major epidemics, prominent food safety problems, serious environmental pollution, and backward facilities and equipment", and has carried out neck technology and key common technology research, and led the establishment of important platforms such as the National Pig Breeding Industry and Education Integration Innovation Platform, the Animal Breeding and Health Breeding Frontier Science Center, and the National Digital Animal Husbandry (Pig) Innovation Sub-center. Intelligent measurement equipment continues to break the dependence on foreign technology, and continues to provide scientific and technological and talent support for the stable production and supply of national pigs and the firm stability of the "meat plate".
Zuo Lingling, deputy director of the National Animal Husbandry Station, said: "Since 2001, Hubei has insisted on carrying out centralized measurement and auction of breeding pigs, which has provided a platform for the majority of breeding farms to display their independent breeding achievements, promoted the formation of a benign market mechanism with high quality and high price, and also provided a platform for farmers to purchase high-quality breeding pigs, which has effectively promoted the implementation of the national pig genetic improvement plan and promoted the popularization and application of improved breeds." ”
(Changjiang Cloud News reporter Wang Xun)