The South Korean government has revealed plans to cull up to 100,000 female hogs in their child-bearing years to help stabilise pork prices
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The minister said, “Difficulties faced by our farms are intensifying rapidly as livestock prices continue to drop while the price of animal feed is rising.
“The government believes the most important thing is to maintain an adequate number of livestock.”
The government earlier said the number of pigs being raised in the country surged to a record high of 10.11mn as of 1 March 2013 up 14.2 per cent from just a year earlier.
The country had earlier come into criticism for burying more than one million pigs alive to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease which usually affects pigs, cattle and goats. Culling of pigs from time to time has also not been unknown in
