Description of organic pig production in Europe
2014
Früh, Barbara | Bochicchio, Davide | Edwards, Sandra | Hegelund, Lene | Leeb, Christine | Sundrum, Albert | Werne, Steffen | Wiberg, Sophia | Prunier, Armelle | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL) | Research Unit of Swine Husbandry ; Agricultural Research Council (CRA) | School of agriculture, food and rural development ; Newcastle University [Newcastle] | Department of Animal Health ; Aarhus University [Aarhus] | Department of sustainable agricultural systems ; Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences [Vienne, Autriche] (BOKU) | Faculty of organic agricultural sciences, department of animal nutrition and animal health ; University of Kassel | Department of Animal Environment and Health ; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) | Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes] (PEGASE) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST
With the aim to identify health and welfare strategies in organic pig production, a description of the different organic production systems was realized in eight European countries (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and UK). This description was based on the following features: numbers of organic farms and organic pigs, market shares, housing and management characteristics, feeding characteristics, main health problems and relevant differences to the EU regulation existing at the time of the project. The results were primarily based on statistics, country-specific regulations as well as on expert and stakeholder interviews. Organic farming and organic pig production are rapidly developing in European countries. The European country with the highest number of organic pigs is Germany. Organic pig production represents a minor part of the whole pig production in all surveyed countries. All features that were analysed varied greatly between countries with the most striking one being the housing of pigs that can be completely outdoors on pasture for most UK farms and always indoors with an access to an outdoor run, during part of their life, for most farms of German speaking countries.
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