The promise of pork
While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent briefing session in Phnom Penh on the swine industry. Last year, pig production reached over two million head, up slightly from 2010, but that is down from 2.7 million in 2006. … But due to price fluctuations and imports of cheaper swine from neighboring Thailand, production has dropped…
