• Very high value-add per acre yield of pig farming industry.  An average farm size of 500 animals per acre, with 2.5 million heads, total land devoted to pig farming is about 5000 acres.  With an additional 30% buffer area, the total acreage is only about 6500 acres.  If the selling price of live pig is RM350, then 3.5 million pigs a year generate some RM1.225 billion in value.  This works out to be RM200,000 per acre (compared to RM4000 per acre for Palm Oil in good times –50 times, and normal times of RM2000 per acre, 100 times!).

 
• The pig farming industry employs around 8,500 workers directly and another 9,400 indirectly in the ancillary and supporting activities.  The replacement effect of these people will increase the unemployment rate.  After much hard work in trying to put the national economy back on track, the nation can hardly afford another heavy blow.

 
• Though the pig farming industry still needs to be improved to catch up international standards, this industry is showing signs of maturing, and the efficiency of the industry is improving.  There were 18,000 farms in 1965, the total was reduced to 4,097 in 1985 3,592 in 1995.  On the contrary the population of animals increased from 1.4 million in 1980 to 2.3 million in 1990.

 
• The price of live pig has also been stable.  Over the 1980-1990 period, in spite of the 29% increase in the consumer price index, the price of 100 kg of live pig was RM277 in 1980 and RM257 in 1990.  These numbers all go to show the maturing trend in the industry.

 
• Loss of foreign earnings from export: 1998 export of live pigs to Singapore earnings RM436.5 million.

 
• Importation of 153,644 ton of pork costing RM1,051 million (assuming CIF cost of USD1,800 per ton)

 
• Self-sufficiency in pork, equivalent to 11% of meat sources protein.

 
• Malaysians are denied a key source of meat protein. Also 80% of Malaysian tourist come from pork-eating communities. The absence of fresh pork will greatly inhibit the preparation of unique Malaysian cuisine, hence reduce the culinary attractiveness of Malaysian food. Food is an important attraction, especially for East Asian tourists.

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