“A one-day, on campus awareness on hands on pig farming’’ was organised by ICAR- AICRP on Pig, Nagaland Centre, department of Livestock Production Management, at NU: School of Agricultural Sciences (SAS) Medziphema campus on Saturday.
Speaking as resource person, Dr Joshua Kath emphasized on the common diseases in pig in the context to Northeast states and particularly in Nagaland.
He explained on the need to understand the diseases and prevent them in all possible ways.
He also spoke on the topics of prevention and control of pig diseases and farm practical demonstration.
In the second session, resource person, Dr V Rutsa spoke on the piggery NER and economics of pig production including various government and schemes which could be availed and farm practical demonstration was also displayed.
Dr. Rutsa emphasised that Northeast states have a massive piggery scope, and the requirement was 1232.27 (TMT) thousand metric tonnes but the availability was only 80.75 TMT. Dr Rutsa informed that as per the latest livestock census, there was about 9.06 million livestock in the country, with state of Assam leading (2.1 million), Meghalaya (0.7 million), Nagaland (0.4 million) and Mizoram (0.29 million).
The welcome address was as delivered by training incharge, ICAR-AICRP on pig, Dr M. Catherine and exhortation by Head of Department, Professor, Dr Nizamuddin.
At the training, the participants were imparted hands on training on scientific pig farming including breed selection, housing management, nutrition management, disease management, biosecurity and waste management etc.