Do you know the market situation of pig farming industry in China in 2025?

1. Current status and market size of the pig farming equipment industry
Market growth is strong
In 2024, the market size of China's livestock robot market will reach 1.87 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20%; it is expected to exceed 2.2 billion yuan in 2025, with feeding robots (accounting for 35%), milking robots (25%), inspection robots (20%) and cleaning and disinfection robots (15%) constituting the main equipment types17. The penetration rate of intelligent equipment has increased rapidly, driving the improvement of breeding efficiency and the reduction of labor costs.

Technology-driven upgrade

AI and IoT integration: For example, New Hope's "AI weight estimation equipment" completes pig weight detection in 5 seconds (accuracy 98%), and Nanshang Agricultural Science's machine vision technology reduces feed waste rate to less than 5% (lower than the industry average of 10%)25.

Domestic substitution is accelerating: core technology breakthroughs such as backfat detection and genome breeding chips reduce external dependence (such as New Hope's "Core Hope" pig chip reduces costs by 30%)2.

🤖 2. Intelligent equipment technology breakthroughs and application scenarios
Technology type Representative enterprises Core functions and application effects Innovation highlights
AI weight estimation and inventory New Hope Liuhe Channel contactless inventory, 10 times more efficient Replacement of traditional manual weighing, 98% accuracy2
Precision feeding system Nanshang Agricultural Science Dynamic decision-making feeding, feed waste rate <5% Million-level data training model5
Breeding technology innovation Muyuan shares Air filtration pig house + inspection robot, real-time disease warning Fully automatic monitoring of environmental indicators3
Slaughter automation ST Tianbang (Hike) Backfat detection robot improves segmentation efficiency Linquan slaughterhouse landing application4
🏭 3. Industry competition pattern and representative enterprises
Localization layout of international brands

Big Dutchman, Nedap, etc. occupy the high-end market with full-process solutions, focusing on climate control and manure treatment systems6.

The rise of leading domestic enterprises

Muyuan shares: Developing intelligent environmental control systems and inspection robots, building a technical barrier for "air filtration pig houses", and promoting listing in Hong Kong in 2025 to strengthen international layout (first stop in Southeast Asia) 38.

New Hope Liuhe: Building an "AI breeding + online trading platform" ecological chain, its "Jubaozhu" platform covers 24 provinces across the country, and online pig sales account for more than 80%2.

Nanshang Agro-Tech: Overseas orders surged by 87.5% in the first quarter of 2025, and offices were set up in Vietnam and Russia, with the goal of overseas revenue accounting for 50% within three years5.

Emerging technology companies

ST Tianbang (Hike Technology): Backfat detection and inspection robots realize personalized feeding management4.

Qingdao Puhui Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.: Provide pig farms with "design-equipment-management" full-chain services to strengthen the adaptability of intensive breeding6.

🔮 4. Analysis of core trends in the pig farming industry
Intelligent farming has penetrated comprehensively

The IoT coverage rate of pig farms of leading enterprises exceeds 60%, and AI technology is applied to scenarios such as disease early warning (such as Muyuan inspection robots), nutritional formula optimization (such as New Hope's "Hope Core" feed)23.

Labor substitution is accelerating: humanoid robots or special equipment will gradually take over complex operations such as injections and feeding3.

Industry chain integration and model innovation

"Company + Farmer" upgrade: New Hope will drive 3,400 foster households to market 8.99 million pigs in 2024, generating 3 billion yuan in revenue, and integrate production data through the "Smart Pig Farming" platform to achieve dynamic cost control2.

Online transactions are becoming mainstream: pig auctions and piglet auctions are online (such as the "Jubao Pig" platform that serves 700,000 pigs a year)2.

International layout is accelerating

Muyuan targets the equipment and epidemic prevention gaps in Southeast Asia, and leverages its listing on the Hong Kong stock market to integrate global R&D resources8; Nanshang Agricultural Science and Technology equipment is exported to Russia, the United States, and Southeast Asia, with orders exceeding 10 million5.

Green, low-carbon and disease prevention and control

Policies promote the "combination of farming and breeding" model, and the demand for intelligent manure treatment equipment is rising (such as Jingpeng Animal Husbandry Environmental Protection Solution)6.

African swine fever prevention and control drives the popularization of closed intelligent pig houses, and Muyuan air filtration system reduces the risk of disease transmission38.

⚠️ V. Challenges and future prospects
Challenges: High cost of equipment transformation for small and medium-sized retail households, insufficient technical adaptability; core components such as high-end sensors still rely on imports.

Opportunities: Policy support for preferential tax rates for intelligent agricultural machinery (9%)6; consumer demand for meat traceability forces the digitalization of the industrial chain.

Forecast: From 2025 to 2030, pig farming equipment will evolve towards unmanned demonstration bases (under construction by Nanshang Agricultural Science) and AI-based full-link gene-feed-management57.

💎 In summary, driven by policies, technology and market, China's pig farming equipment industry has entered a period of intelligent explosion in 2025. Local companies are reshaping the global breeding equipment competition landscape through core technology innovation and international layout.