Spanish white pork sector: working to protect the environment
To this end, few sectors have made as many efforts as the white pork sector, having reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) per each kilo of meat by 57% and nitrogen emissions by 50% per animal in the last 30 years.
It should be noted that, despite occupying a significant percentage of the territory and generating an activity with many production centers (66,000 farms) and 415,000 jobs, our weight over the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a whole it is barely 2.43%.
All these data show (during a period of great growth in sectoral production) that thanks to the optimization of livestock feeding, genetic and management systems and the application of the best available livestock management practices, the sector has increased enormously its productive efficiency. In addition, thanks to the continuous improvement in these areas and new best practices and technologies for the reduction, capture and reuse of methane, everything allows us to foresee that in a period of 10 years (Horizon 2030) the sector will have reduced to practically zero its "net environmental pollution”.
Additionally, currently the Spanish white pork sector works in numerous projects, both in research and implementation of renewable energy systems, from different technologies, such as: solar panels and panels thermal or photovoltaic, geothermal energy, wind energy and energy from biomass or biogas from manure.
From the Spanish Inter-professional Agri-Food Organization for White Pork (INTERPORC) we are part of the Spanish UN Global Compact, supporting all its activities and actively working on fourteen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to help transformation of our world into a more sustainable one by 2030.
On our website, in order to help farms meet these objectives, a "Guide for the minimization of gas emissions in pig farms" is available online through in Spanish.
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