China scrambles to raise millions of fever-free pigs

For Chinese authorities, struggling with the rapid spread of African swine fever, a disease that’s threatening to devastate the world’s largest pig industry, Russia’s number-one pork producer has the answer: get bigger and cleaner, or get out.

Miratorg, which raises three million pigs annually, not only has strict quarantine measures at every level of its farms, but it also bans workers from rearing their own pigs and from hunting wild boar. Such biosecurity has enabled it to thrive in the face of one of the world’s most dangerous swine diseases.