On April 12, according to the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the Announcement of the Selection and Verification Results the 2021 National Livestock and Poultry Core Breeding Farms and Change of Names, Guiyang Dekon (Zhongzhai Breeding Pig Farm) was selected as a national level pig core breeding farm.
The selection of Zhongzhai Breeding Pig Farm has achieved a breakthrough of zero in Guizhou Province's national pig core breeding farm. It plays a crucial role in promoting the pig industry in Guizhou Province and the development of Dekon Group.
On December 18, 2021, the Professor Zhao Shuhong from the School of Animal Science and Technology of Huazhong Agricultural University, Professor and Doctoral Advisor Yin Zongjun from the School of Animal Science and Technology of Anhui Agricultural University, and Lou Youwu, Jiangxi Province Promotion Researcher and other experts and scholars visited the farm for site acceptance. Xiang Qingyun, Director of the Guizhou Provincial Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Committee and deputy-director level cadres of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tang Longqiang, Member of the Guizhou Provincial Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Committee and Chief Veterinary Physician of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gao Jie, Director of the Seed Industry Management Department of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Yang Zhongcheng, Director of the Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Management Station, presented at the evaluation site.
In October 2014, Zhongzhai Pig Farm introduced the first batch of internationally-advanced original breeds such as Large White and Landrace from Zigong Dekon Jianshan Breeding Farm (Dekon Group's Original Breeding Pig Base) to form a core breeding herd. It is a GGP core breeding farm in Guizhou region, and can produce over 30,000 weaning piglets and over 8000 purebred pigs every year.
Since its establishment and operation, Zhongzhai Breeding Pig Farm has conducted breeding and production work with high quality and in accordance with the standards of a national core farm. Being selected as a national level core farm indicates that Zhongzhai Breeding Pig Farm has achieved significant achievements in key indicators such as pig farm site selection, biosafety, pig herd size, performance measurement quantity and accuracy, and has gained recognition from the industry and the country. At the same time, it also directly proves the strong strength of Dekon in the Guizhou region, positively driving the development and growth of Guizhou's pig industry.
The selection of Zhongzhai Breeding Pig Farm as a national core breeding farm will effectively promote Dekon's reputation of high quality in the industry, greatly promote the improvement and optimization of Dekon's breeding system, and further contribute to the breeding and talents output of Dekon Group during its development of pig industry in Guizhou in the future.
Dekon's being included in the national core pig breeding farms is the result of its advanced breeding facilities, strong breeding expert team, excellent herd breeding system, and scientific and standardized breeding plans.
Since the introduction of breeding pigs from Canada, after years of careful breeding, Dekon's breeding pigs have formed distinctive characteristics of being "abundant, fast, good, economic, and strong", making them more suitable for local breeding. At the same time, Dekon has successfully overcome the vicious cycle of "degradation of introduced breeding pigs" in China, which is of great strategic significance for improving the production performance of China's breeding pigs, gradually narrowing the gap with developed countries, and changing the situation of China's long-term dependence on foreign countries for excellent breeding pigs.
