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Against stiff international competition, British-based pig genetics company, ACMC Ltd, has won an order to supply one of Spain’s largest integrators with breeding stock. A new project will involve the setting up of a 500-sow high-health nucleus and nucleus multiplier herd in a deal worth 2¼ million Euros
The unit is being stocked by Genetica Meidam — ACMC’s Spanish arm based at Roitegui in the Basque region of northern Spain. When it comes on-stream it will be responsible for improved genetics in 200,000 slaughter pigs through the integration scheme.
The agreement follows a year of discussions and investigation by the integrator, including visits by senior vets to ACMC’s headquarters at Beeford in Yorkshire, England and commercial units already using ACMC’s stock on the Iberian Peninsular.
The buyers were particularly impressed by the company’s scientific programme, involving the individual testing of both males and females, as well as the prolificacy of the Meidam stock on commercial units, said Eric Hindson, managing director of Genetica Meidam.
ACMC will be controlling the mating and testing programmes and providing PigCom,
the Windows-based herd management system, as well as supplying genetically
up-to-date semen and boars, which will be changed every 12 months.
2] ACMC exports the first British breeding pigs to Cambodia
The first of 600 genetically-advanced breeding pigs have been shipped out to
Cambodia as part of a 20-year franchise agreement in a deal clinched by Yorkshire-based
international pig-breeding company, ACMC Ltd. It is believed to be the first
time ever that Cambodia has imported genetics from Britain. The initial order
is worth almost £1 million.
ACMC’s special Meidam and Volante damlines and Vantage sirelines, plus boars representing all three breeds, have been sent to a new unit specially set up on a five-hectare site to house a nucleus herd, in the Prey Nop district of Sihanoukville city, in the west of the country. This has been established by a new company — M’s Pig ACMC (Cambodia) Ltd — set up by the Mong Reththy Group (MRT), a large organisation with interests in civil engineering, construction and shipping as well as agriculture. ACMC has a shareholding in the new company.
The self-contained breeding unit — involving an investment of $5 million (£3.3 million) — will eventually supply enough commercial AC1 sows to produce 1.1 million slaughter pigs annually and will provide employment for thousands of people in rural areas. The project will also involve a feed-milling operation with a projected output of 330,000 tonnes a year and a slaughter/processing plant to produce ‘Premium Quality Pork’ for the Cambodian population, projected to grow from 13 million to 16 million by 2015.
The agreement was negotiated by ACMC chairman, Stephen Curtis, following a visit in April 2008. Due to the complexity of the order, the stock had to be specially bred to provide the necessary blood-lines.
Cambodia, which currently imports between 2,000 pigs a day from neighbouring countries, principally Thailand, to meet domestic demand is urgently seeking to increase indigenous output through an education project which aims to improve production methods and health standards together with the use of improved stock.
Interestingly, Cambodia will be importing genes, albeit much modified, originally
sourced from the Far East. More than two decades ago the prolific Chinese Meishan
was brought into Europe. Over a 20-year period ACMC used these genetics to
create a new breed, the Meidam, to boost productivity. The Meidam is selected
with 16 functioning teats and produces 15 per cent more milk than conventional
European lines, enabling it to rear many more pigs. In Europe the AC1 has been
shown to produce up to 30 pigs per sow a year.
ACMC believes it is the only company that has managed to incorporate this ability
while maintaining high-quality lean carcases in the finishing generation. This
is what appealed to the Cambodians.
By special licence the breeding stock was transhipped through Bangkok airport. Their arrival, seen by the media as a historical event, was attended by Dr Oknha Mong Reththy, CEO of the MRT Group, Stephen Curtis, chairman of ACMC, Steve Buckley director of investment from the UK Embassy and Sry Thamarong, Minister Attached to the Prime Minister of Cambodia.
Stephen Curtis acknowledges the help and support received from Mr Steve Buckley, director of investment at the British Embassy in Bangkok, also Defra and the UK Export Certification Partnership (UKECP) for their assistance.
For more about this major British pig breeding company or to contact them
see www.acmc.co.uk