By Ella Cao, Daphne Zhang and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, March 24 (Reuters) - Rising grain prices fuelled by the Iran war are ...
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 ...
Scientists found that ammonia drifting from pig farms can settle on nearby soils and increase nitrous oxide emissions.
BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) - China on Monday issued new regulations to control the nation's pig production capacity after an aggressive expansion of farms over the past two years led to an oversupply, ...
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China wants slimmer pigs

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on ...
A research team has revealed an overlooked climate feedback near intensive livestock farms: ammonia (NH₃) from pig production ...
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