The treatment of raising pigs from pastoral sources is not very stable in the whole industry. When the industry is good, it can earn hundreds of thousands a year, and when the pork market is low, it may lose money. By February 24, 2020, the national average pig price was around one catty of 22 yuan, and some farmers were lucky enough not to encounter the epidemic and were relatively profitable.

For small and medium-sized pig farms in Muyuan, you can earn 350 thousand or 120 thousand when the market is good. Last year, when the pig price was the cheapest, it was only five or six yuan a catty. Many pig farms either don't make money or even lose money. On average, the money earned this year actually filled the previous deficit.

Because raising pigs is not for work or work, how many days do you work and get paid? Huge investment was made in the early stage of pig raising, including building pig farms, buying breeding pigs, fattening, feed raw materials and so on. After all the hardware facilities of the pig farm are completed, this is only the beginning. The price of pigs varies from year to year. The price of pigs as high as 2020 has not been encountered in the last decade.

In fact, it is not easy to raise pigs to make money. Everyone has heard of the famous pig cycle theory. Raising pigs means earning one year and losing one year. This is the most common cycle. But in many cases, it is not a three-year cycle, sometimes it is to earn two years a year and lose two years.

Some farmers have raised pigs for five years, and after a rough calculation, they have worked for five years in vain. This does not include the problems encountered in raising pigs, as well as the costs of pig diseases, vaccines, feed, pig farm procedures, manure treatment and so on that every farmer has to face. Therefore, in general, the treatment of raising pigs from pastoral sources is not very stable in the whole industry.