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PIGS S – Strengths W – Weaknesses<br />

Internal factors Internal factors<br />

Animals<br />

Breeds, flock<br />

size …<br />

Meat <strong>Sector</strong> Study<br />

Large white, landrace are good Cross-breeds and other breeds less<br />

profitable<br />

17 farms with more than 50 pigs; 40,000 farms with 1 - 5 pigs mostly<br />

DZIRA - 30 sows and 6 - 800<br />

fattening pigs per year<br />

for auto-consumption<br />

Stables Good stables at commercial farms Poor, dark premises at subsistence<br />

farms<br />

Manure First farms under construction with No manure removal systems in<br />

handling advanced technology, also in place; manure is used as fertilizer<br />

manure management<br />

on the fields and slurry just runs into<br />

the nearby river; does not respect<br />

environmental standards<br />

Feeding High input of concentrates, On small farms low input (low<br />

sometimes farms have on feed concentrates), home grown fodder<br />

mixing; expensive production - from limited fields; feed<br />

sometimes maize grown<br />

concentrates expensive as imported<br />

Technology, Bigger farms have tractors and On the farm small farmers do<br />

mechanisation agr.equipment<br />

everything by hand - feeding,<br />

…<br />

removing the manure, etc... On the<br />

fields machinery is missing,<br />

sometimes they buy (expensive)<br />

services from private tractor owners<br />

Slaughtering On farm slaughtering in basic For auto-consumption slaughtering<br />

(location, live slaughter rooms; on bigger farms takes place on farm without<br />

weight …)<br />

Farmer<br />

veterinary inspection takes place veterinary control (also relevant for<br />

local sales); much slaughtering in so<br />

called slaughtering points - often<br />

along major roads<br />

Slaughter-weights 70 - 120 kg alive;<br />

no uniform products - at least not<br />

from small holders; lack of<br />

knowledge about low-fat meat<br />

production which is best preferred -<br />

20-30 % of carcass weight loss<br />

because of fat, affects heavily profit<br />

reduction<br />

Education Educational background is limited<br />

as almost no vocational schools<br />

which would be needed to train<br />

small holders.<br />

Focus / Highly focused if commercially done Subsistence farmers have<br />

specialisation<br />

additionally few chickens for autoconsumption<br />

Meat <strong>Sector</strong> Study, page 54

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