INTERPORC: The white-coated pork sector invests in rural areas
Initially, for generations, families fed on the pigs they raised together. This practice gave way little by little, first to farms and, later, to the industry as we know it today.
A long process that has modified the appearance of the sector, but in which there is something that has remained firm and solid: the close relationship between the pork sector and small towns.
The figures are very clear in that sense. 39% of Spanish municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants have one or more pig farms. In fact, 43% of farms and 75% of the pig census are located in rural areas. As if that were not enough, 45% of the pork processing industries are also located in these areas.
These data translate into something even more important: thousands of jobs and economic activity. Two essential elements that allow many areas found in so-called rural Spain to be socially energized.
Indeed. Where other industries do not even consider setting up, the white pork sector invests more than 1.2 billion euros a year in infrastructure that serves to create direct, indirect and induced jobs.
Because creating companies and jobs in these areas not only allows the population to settle around farms and pig industries. It also contributes to revitalizing the life of these towns by allowing other businesses and services that without population would simply disappear around the pig and its people to survive, or even be established. We talk about schools, supermarkets, workshops, shops, cultural activities.
No less important is that this investment has transformed the sector into a modern livestock industry, with farms and industries that incorporate the latest technological advances, that have opted for the digitalization of their processes and that are a focus of attraction for highly qualified professionals.
All this together allows the white-coated pork sector to boast of being one of the great incentives in the face of the exodus that many areas of Spain are experiencing, as well as a major protagonist in rural development. A concept that is one of the seven pillars on which our DNA is based, along with Animal Welfare, Innovation, Internationalization, Professionalism, Food Safety and Sustainability.
While many others talk about rural development and betting on giving life to towns, the white pork sector is dedicated to acting and obtaining effective results. A line of action that we share and promote from INTERPORC, the Interprofessional of the White Coated Pig.
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