From July to September 2022, the total hog production in the Philippines increased to 436.68 thousand metric tons from 418.07 thousand metric tons in the same quarter of 2021, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.
The challenges include transboundary animal diseases, or the highly contagious or transmissible epidemic diseases, such as African swine fever and avian flu; high costs of farm inputs, such as imported feed ingredients; lack of new breeding animals; and the travel restrictions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.Animal biotechnology
Animal biotechnology includes livestock, poultry, fish, insects, companion animals and laboratory animals. Villanueva said that a transgenic animal is developed with the deliberate modification of its genome, the genetic makeup of an organism responsible for inherited traits or characteristics. Villanueva announced that buffalo clone embryos had been successfully produced in-vitro, or outside the buffalo’s body or in a test tube.
I see the hogs grow horns now 😂🤣