Bama miniature pig breeder listed

Bama Original Miniature Pig Agriculture and Husbandry Company was listed on the Q board of the Shanghai Enquity Exchange on June 25, marking the company's smooth entry into the capital market.

The company specializes in nurturing, promoting, processing and selling Bama pigs. It now has over 35,000 pigs, becoming Guangxi's largest breeder of Bama miniature pigs.

Although the company was not listed on the A share market, the move still attracted high attention. The Q board is short for small and medium-sized enterprise equity quotation system, set up in 2013 to help small and micro businesses raise money by issuing stocks and bonds.

Bama miniature pigs have become an iconic health food, associated with local longevity and health tourism in recent years. In October 2005, it was listed for protection as geographical indication product. In July 2011, the 11th Guangxi Autonomous Regional Standing Committee of the National People's Congress approved a conservation regulation to protect Bama pigs. The meat products were sold to Southeast Asian countries, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Yunnan. In 2014, the Bama Yao autonomous county raised 520,000 miniature pigs, 390,000 of which had been bred, with an output value of 195 million yuan ($31.41 million).

"Being listed on stork market, for Bama pig, a step towards the capital market, is to our company essential for further development," said Wen Wei, president of the Bama Original Miniature Pig Agriculture and Husbandry Company.

Edited by Andrew Ancheta