China’s Multi-Story Hog Hotels Elevate Industrial Farms to New Level

A worker poses outside a seven-storey pig building of Guangxi Yangxiang's farm at Yaji Mountain Forest Park in Guangxi province, China, March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Suen

YAJI MOUNTAIN, China—On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows a thousand head per floor in high-rise “hog hotels”.

Privately owned agricultural company Guangxi Yangxiang Co. Ltd. is running two seven-floor sow breeding operations and is putting up four more, including one with as many as 13 floors that will be the world’s tallest building of its kind.