Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs / 农业农村部

Overview

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs / 农业农村部 appears in the source as the official context for China’s pork-price monitoring, pig-industry analysis, and policy attention to live-hog capacity.

Current Profile

In this wiki entry, the ministry is not analyzed institutionally in full. Its current role is evidentiary: the source uses ministry-linked monitoring data and industry-analysis commentary to describe the altered 猪周期, especially the long low-price phase, scale-farming threshold, and historical cycle count since 2002.

Key Characteristics

• Provides monitored pork-market data used in the source’s price discussion.
• Supplies or anchors industry-analysis commentary about historical pork cycles.
• Defines large-scale pig farms in the source as operations above a stated annual slaughter threshold.
• Appears in relation to live-hog capacity regulation meetings and market stabilization concerns.
• Functions as a source-side authority rather than as the sole causal actor behind pork prices.

Evidence

Price monitoring:

• 猪肉价格经历漫长下跌，为什么「猪周期」不再遵循老节奏？ cites ministry monitoring of 500 market points for late-August pork prices.

Industry cycle framing:

• 猪肉价格经历漫长下跌，为什么「猪周期」不再遵循老节奏？ attributes the historical five-complete-cycle account since 2002 to a ministry-linked pork-industry analyst.

Scale-farming threshold:

• 猪肉价格经历漫长下跌，为什么「猪周期」不再遵循老节奏？ says the ministry defines farms with annual slaughter above 500 pigs as scaled operations.

Qualifications

This page records the ministry as cited by the episode. It does not independently verify the latest ministry rule text, live-hog-control policies, or current official staffing.

What Changed

• Created the ministry page as the official-data and policy-context entity for the pork-cycle source.

Relationships

• Pork Cycle / 猪周期 - provides official monitoring and analyst context used to describe cycle changes.
• China Pig Farming Scale Consolidation / 中国生猪养殖规模化 - defines the scale threshold cited by the source.
• China - national policy and agricultural-market setting.
• Agricultural Systems Reality - broader agriculture frame connecting policy, biology, markets, and infrastructure.