In August of 2018, the Chinese were raising 500 million pigs, enough to meet the huge domestic demand. Half of the world’s pigs are grown in China, yet the price of pork in 2014 was one-third higher than the rest of the world due to high demand. Unfortunately, today, just as China is dealing with a human health crisis from the coronavirus, its agricultural economy is under threat from a pig disease: African swine fever.
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