Adrian Balaban

“I am a pig veterinarian practitioner and I consider myself a pig farmer, I am not coming from the academic area but from the field.

I graduated the Faculty for veterinary Medicine in Bucharest in 2005. In 2006 I start rebuilding a sow farm in Romania that start to work in 2007 with 620 sows. In all these years I had studied pig medicine and pig production economics in USA and Europe. In the last 8 years I’m in the board of directors of the Romanian Association of pig meat producers and for the last 2 years Im president of the Romanian Association of swine veterinarians. I participated like farmers’ representative at meetings and negotiations with the Romanian government or the European Commission.

Today I’m manager of a Cooperative that operates 13 pig farms , 9000 sows in 4 different farms , 7 finishing farms 52000 places in total, one nursery farm , and one AI station. I have my own sow farm with 1300 sows and I’m partner in other pig farms and companies. In our group we have a feed factory that produce 70000 tons of feed per year. I do consultancy in pig production and pig health management.”