They expect to ship the equivalent of 500 animals each week.

Marco Tulio Figueroa, president of Apogua, the Guatemalan Pig Breeders Association, told Sigloxxi.om that “in our industrialized farms, we produce 22 piglets for each one of our 25.000 female pigs; this translates to 550.000 thousand a year and 45.833 per month”.

Source: sigloxxi.com

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