PigProgress - Alibaba: Artificial intelligence inside Chinese pig farms

As China's largest news network Xinhua reported, a new deal worth millions of yuan has been signed between livestock farming companies the Sichuan Tequ Group, the Dekon Group and Alibaba, China's technology giant. This united approach has the goal of identifying and predicting fertility by analysing swine behaviour. The system should be able to keep a record of every single pig, including their breed, age in days, diet, weight and movement. The system is said to be able to help each sow give birth to 3 more piglets per year and reduce the mortality rate by around 3%, according to an early-stage experiment. Tequ Group's chief information officer, Zhang Haifeng, told Xinhua: "If you have 10 million pigs to raise, you can barely count how many piglets were born on a daily basis when the due date comes."