For farmers and individual operators, traditional, decentralized free-range or small-scale pig farming does not require high conditions such as capital, technology and talents, and has low barriers to entry. However, large-scale pig farming faces higher barriers to entry, such as:
① Capital barriers
Large-scale hog farming enterprises, especially those adopting the large-scale integrated mode of self-breeding and self-propagation for pig farming, need a large amount of capital to buy breeding pigs, purchase and build pig sheds, purchase crates and other equipment, etc., with a large investment in the early stage. At the same time, the pig breeding cycle is relatively long, and more liquidity is needed for turnover in the process of production and operation. Therefore, large-scale pig breeding has a high capital barrier.
②Technical barriers
As people pay more attention to food safety, the sanitation standards and veterinary drug residue standards required by the pork market are getting higher and higher. Hog farming enterprises engaged in large-scale integration must have certain technical accumulation in epidemic prevention and control, drug residue control, breeding technology, etc., in order to form a competitive advantage in the market.
③Talent barrier
Large-scale integrated pig breeding involves more professional and technical fields, in particular, it needs a large number of experienced technicians and managers specializing in breeding and disease prevention and control, and the training and experience accumulation of technicians need a longer period of time, which makes large-scale breeding have certain talent barriers.
