CURRENT STATE OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN PEDIGREE AND COMMERCIAL PIG BREEDING IN UKRAINE

Abstract

According to the results of a comprehensive assessment of the current state and level of technology deployment by commercial producers of pedigree and commercial pig products in Ukraine, a positive trend in the pig sector development has been established, which is reflected in gradually increasing number of pigs in the commercial swine industry from 31.6% to 61.8% from 2000 to 2020. Pig productive performance under conditions of commercial production, in its turn, exhibits an overall uptrend towards global standards. Commercial pork farms use genotypes of foreign origin. As to the current state of native swine breeds, the situation is tough indeed as the restoration of these breeds involves certain problems and is of no interest to commercial pig breeding that relies on the use of cosmopolitan species, such as Large White, Landrace, Duroc and Pietrain, in combinations within the framework of classical breeding schemes; however, native Ukrainian breeds look promising as regards the creation of organic farms (ethnofarms, museums, etc.).