The company currently has 46 farms in Romania, in the counties of Timis and Arad, per data on the company’s website.
Company officials previously said the demand for meat products was constant in 2020 and the biggest challenge for the company last year was the African swine fever outbreak, which caused problems to many traditional pork exporters, globally, and not the COVID-19 pandemic.
Smithfield Romania is part of Smithfield Foods, which operates in the field of pork production and food processing, is headquartered in Virginia, the United States of America, and is fully owned by China-based WH Group, with over 50,000 employees globally, per data on the group’s website.