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Characteristics of commercial farms

 Large farms on multiple locations
● Farrowing and finishing is found both on a single location, and on separate locations
 Besides farrow-to-finish farms also specialised finishing farms depending on imported piglets

 Full or partly vertically integrated (own feed processing and some also slaughtering and sales)
 Large part of feed ingredients home-grown
 Governmental support for farm development, especially for piglet production and for animal welfare and environmental measures.

 Both Romanian and foreign investors and expertise
 Since ASF threat in Romania: high level of biosecurity
 Substantial amount of regulation on e.g. environment, animal health, hygiene implemented and enforced

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