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Low production costs and good health status support pig growth in Argentina.

The Catalonian College of Veterinarians has promoted the One Health Commission intending to work public health from a more comprehensive view.  

After a break of more than a year without attending face-to-face events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rotecna participates in the Meat & Poultry fair in Moscow.

Aragon currently has 32 slurry management centres and four treatment plants located in the areas with the highest livestock activity concentration.

In the last three years, the Spanish pig meat industries' significant involvement with the Asian market has brought great benefits.

The animals occupy 10% of the area and move from one plot to another periodically to leave the area unoccupied and at rest for seven months.

The arrival of the ASF in Hungary in 2018 was a crisis in the sector whose local production stagnated, reduced its exports, and increased imports.

Currently there are many women who are part of the pig sector and work in each of its links.

Among the sectoral challenges is the fight against antibiotic resistance, with the prospect of reducing the sale of antimicrobials for livestock by 50% in 2030.

Rotecna has been included for the fourth consecutive year in CEPYME's ranking of the 500 leading growth companies in Spain.

Changes in the structure of the sector have allowed Danish pigs to become one of the largest producers and piglet exporters.

The VIGIASAN project  aims to develop a livestock surveillance system through movement patterns that can detect infectious diseases early.

The implementation of the new technologies on farms has increased production figures.

This virus, which only affects the pig species, is typified as the virus that generates the most economic losses in the pig sector.

The fattening phase is the last link in the production chain and, although it is considered the simplest, it is of vital importance since future profits or losses in the process depend on it.