PHOTO: VINCENT TER BEEK


Weaner pigs are being loaded into a three-storey truck on a farm in North Carolina, USA.


contrast, the 38 pig meat producing LLDC had 13.2% of the global population but contributed only 1.8% to pig meat production. Despite the comparatively low importance of the LLDCs in global pig meat production, the dynamic development in several countries is worth noting, in particular the extraordi- nary position of Myanmar and Malawi. In Africa, the LLDCs contributed 56.3% to the continent’s pig meat production;


in Asia, this was only 1.9% despite the very dynamic develop- ment in Myanmar.


References available on request.


* The author is scientific director, WING, Hanover Veterinary Univer- sity and professor emeritus of the University of Vechta, Germany


Table 5 – Pig slaughter and pig meat production in the ten LLDC in 2018.


Country


Pig slaughter Share (%) Country (x 1 million)


Myanmar 12,506 Malawi 3,395 Laos 2,538 Mozambique 2,28 Uganda 2,153 Cambodia 1,73 Burkina Faso 1,488 Angola 1,48 Madagascar 923 Zambia 742


10 countries *35,246 LLDC total 40,752 Source: FAO database.


30.7 23.1 6.2 5.6 5.3 4.2 3.7 3.6 2.3 1.8


86.5 100.0


Myanmar Malawi Uganda


Cambodia Laos


Madagascar


10 countries LLDC total


Production


(x 1,000 tonnes) 1,063.1 268.0 129.2


Mozambique 111.9 Angola


96.1 86.5 70.3 65.3


Burkina Faso 44.6 Haiti


34.4


*1,969.5 2,196.1


Share (%)


48.4 12.2 5.9 5.1 4.4 3.9 3.2 3.0 2.0 1.6


89.7 100.0


Table 6 – Average slaughter weights of pigs in the ten leading CLC and LLDC and at the global level in 2018.


Country Slaughter weight (kg)


Canada 99.4 Country Myanmar


USA 95.9 Madagascar Germany 94.4 Poland 93.8


Angola Haiti


France 91.9 Uganda Russia 89.7 Brazil 88.8 Spain 86.6 China 78.9 Vietnam 67.7 CLC total


83.1


World 81.4 Source: FAO database.


Cambodia


Mozambique Burkina Faso Malawi Laos


LLDC total World


Slaughter


weight (kg) 85.0 70.1 65.0 60.0 60.0 50.0 49.1 30.0 28.5 27.7 53.9 81.4


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