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Farmers (những người nông dân) have always done their best to maximize (tối đa hóa) yield (sản lượng), whether that be cramming (nhồi) another row of corn onto a field or breeding beefier cattle, but pig farmers in China are really taking things to a new level.

some pig farmers in the country have bred their animals into an almost unrecognizable (không nhận ra được) state and boy are they big.

On a farm owned by a man named Pang Cong, one particularly supersized pig weighs in at over 1,100 pounds, making it bigger than a polar bear.

Pork prices are currently high in many parts of China due to an illness that rapidly swept through farms and claimed the lives of countless (không đếm nổi) animals. Now, the farms with healthy pigs are doing their best to meet the demand and are getting top dollar for their animals as a bonus.

Pang’s farm is a relatively small-scale operation, but his big pigs still fetch a hefty sum (thu về khoản lợi nhuận khổng lồ), with the largest ones selling for over 10,000 yuan, or roughly $1,400. That’s big money for small farming operations and the larger farmers in the region have taken notice, placing an emphasis on breeding larger and larger animals.