1,100 breeding pigs sent to Eastern Europe

UK - Yorkshire pig breeding company ACMC has just sent 1,100 pigs to Eastern Europe in a new export deal that is expected to total 6,000 head of animals.

ACMC is supplying the great grandparent and grandparent breeding stock from its UK breeding centres to nucleus and multiplication units in Romania on the Black Sea, in a scheme that has won backing from the Romanian authorities.

The animals will be used to provide commercial parent breeding males and females to Romanian pig producers. The Romanian government has approved the project and is providing “genetic development grants”.

“Commercial developments like these demonstrate the on-going value of the advanced British swine genetics and our ability to assist poorer countries to develop their economies,” said ACMC executive chairman Stephen Curtis.

He explained that his company had developed its pioneering pig breeding programme to ensure that continued genetic improvement was made through applied quantitative conventional methods. It did not employ genetic engineering, hormones, or other “scary science”.

ACMC geneticists had created a new breed of pig and registered the sire line as the “Vantage”. This animal contained an increased level of intra-muscular fat that improved the succulence and flavour of the meat it produced. Meanwhile, the dam line, registered as “Meidam,” was able to produce and rear more healthy piglets.

“Exciting developments like this are attracting the emerging markets across the world,” said Mr Curtis, who revealed that ACMC exported 700 great grandparent stock to establish a nucleus pig farm in Poland in 2002.

“That unit is doing well and is already providing grandparent stock for multiplier farms. They, in turn, are now close to providing ordinary Polish pig producers with the first commercial hybrid first cross (F1) females,” said Mr Curtis.

Source: ACMC - 12th February 2005

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