Rongchang, a border district in the west of Chongqing, is known as "China's animal husbandry science and technology city", ...

The first sows arrived in late September at the hulking, 26-story high-rise towering above a rural village in central China. The female pigs were whisked away dozens at a time in industrial elevators ...

For centuries, pigs have helped bind the Naxi people of China’s southwestern Yunnan province together. A cornerstone of local society and culture, the pigs — a breed known as “black pigs” — offer both ...

Fortune favours ex-airline employee whose earnings shoot up as she forsakes the skies to get down and dirty and run pig farm A flight attendant in China who quit her job and moved back to her hometown ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday that it is encouraging companies to build pig farms overseas to plug a severe domestic pork shortage after a worse-than-ever African swine fever slashed almost ...

JIAXING, China (Reuters) - Overcrowding on farms around Shanghai was the underlying factor that led to 16,000 dead pigs floating down the Huangpu river into China's affluent financial centre, ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated how large-scale livestock rearing may result in the emergence and transmission of novel, potentially zoonotic pathogens. They ...