date:May 18, 2015
ls for pig rearing in our country, Government of India has initiated measures to promote the pig farming on scientific lines under its five year plans.
In order to make available good foundation stock 115 pig breeding farms were established throughout the country. Pig has got highest feed conversion efficiency i.e. they produce more live weight gain from a given weight of feed than any other class of meat producing animals except broilers. Pig can utilise wide variety of feed stuffs viz. grains,