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Saskatchewan Company Proves Pigs Can Fly

Week of March 3, 2008

Saskatchewan's pig genetics are about to make their mark on the world's largest market, thanks to a shipment of pigs to China.

Fast Genetics of Saskatoon recently shipped 866 pigs to Chengdu, China, where they will form the breeding nucleus of a joint venture company called Tianzow Foods.

"Fast Genetics is based in Saskatchewan, but our parent company is Hytek Ltd. from southern Manitoba," explained Fast General Manager Shannon Meyers. "It is a large pork-producing and processing company which has an equity interest in Tianzow Foods."

The pigs originated in the Fast Genetics facilities at Melfort and Spiritwood. Their journey took them first to Manitoba, then Chicago by truck, and finally on to China via jumbo jet.

"We did charter a Boeing 747 freightliner, which exclusively carried our pigs on this trip, requiring a flying time of about 20 hours," Meyers said.

Meyers says Tianzow Foods has acquired rights to distribute Fast Genetics in China. Tianzow is a vertically integrated company that owns pork production facilities, slaughtering and processing plants, and even a chain of retail meat stores. China offers a market of 1.3 billion people who love their pork, consuming a per capita average of 38 kilograms of pork per year.

"This is a sale where we look at the margins and make a business case to do this single shipment - but it's really greater than that in the potential for our company over the long-term, with all of the offspring that will come out of there into China," Meyers said. "The goal will be to both utilize the offspring in our internal operation and to sell genetics to other Chinese producers."

Even though Canada is considered a high health status exporter of live pigs, completing this transaction did not come without its challenges.

"These animals were blood-tested twice in Saskatchewan at our source farms," Meyers noted. "Then, they were moved to Manitoba and spent 49 days in quarantine, overseen by a Chinese government veterinarian, and blood-tested again. They are now in a Chinese quarantine for 45 days, and after a fourth consecutive clean blood test, the government will finally release them to their owner in China."

Fast Genetics owns 3,700 sows in genetic nucleus and multiplication production in Saskatchewan. Their genetics are found in sow herds and market hogs across Canada, the United States, Mexico, France and, now, China.

"When we look at the opportunities, we think they're great," Meyers said. "One of the reasons is that Saskatchewan is recognized as a great place to produce healthy breeding stock, because of the low density of hogs in the province. From an international standpoint, Saskatchewan is very well viewed as a preferred place to source breeding stock."

Meyers says Fast Genetics is planning to continue its international genetics export business.

"It's a huge undertaking and we have a great staff, who have a lot of commitment to doing it," he stated. "We're exploring other international opportunities, and now that we have this under our belt, our goal will be to get into other countries, as well."


http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/ff080303

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NON PAS EN CHINE

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tant qu'il y a de l'argent à faire ...!!!

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Le Canada doit être prêt à servir le marché chinois


20 janvier 2006




La Chine, premier producteur mondial de porc, devrait devenir un grand importateur de porc d'ici la fin de la décennie. C'est la conclusion que tirent des experts réunis à Banff, en Alberta,dans le cadre d'un séminaire sur le porc.

Il s'agit d'une occasion en or pour les pays exportateurs de porcs, dont le Canada.

En 2004, les fermiers chinois ont fourni la moitié de la production mondiale de porc. Cependant, la Chine exporte peu, car la consommation intérieure est forte et la population ne cesse d'augmenter.

Un chercheur de l'Université de Pékin, Ruojun Wang, visite de nombreux pays, dont le Canada, à la recherche de solutions. Il affirme que les fermiers chinois ont peu d'espace et peu d'eau pour cultiver des céréales et des oléagineux.

Les producteurs chinois cherchent au Canada une aide pour augmenter le rendement de leurs truies.

Éric Aubin, de l'entreprise Hypor, collabore avec les Chinois: « On voit déjà une amélioration génétique avec nos animaux qui ont été envoyés en Chine, comparativement avec les animaux qu'ils utilisaient dans le passé. »

Selon une spécialiste du groupe financier Rabobank, Fiona Boal, le coût élevé des produits agricoles et la croissance économique et démographique plafonneront la production porcine chinoise. Elle dit que le porc est la viande de premier choix des Chinois et, qu'au cours des 10 prochaines années, le pays devra importer beaucoup de porc pour répondre à la demande.
Cette perspective est intéressante pour le Canada, qui figure au troisième rang des pays exportateurs de porc, avec une part du marché estimée à 22 %.

http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/manitoba/2006/01/20/003-porc_chine.shtml