“Piggery Farmers’ Field Day” under ICAR-AICRP on Pig, Goa Centre

    The piggery farmers’ field day programme was organized for two days from 24-25, January 2022 under ICAR-AICRP on Pig by ICAR-CCARI, Goa. Dr. Amiya Ranjan Sahu, P.I of the project and his team were visited to 15 nos. of progressive pig farmers from Nagoa-Verna, Loutlim and Raigini-Bandora villages on first day, and Aldona as well as Khorjuva villages on second day. Awareness on scientific pig rearing and demonstration of nutritional, breeding and reproductive management was highlighted to the farmers. The farmers were also provided with mineral blocks and vaccination of stocks was done by Classical Swine Fever vaccine to around 100 nos. of pigs of aforementioned villages. Blood samples (35 nos.) were collected from the Agonda Goan pigs of these places for DNA repository in the institute gene bank.