Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 18 2009:
Who says rearing pigs cannot be a viable means of livelihood ? One only need to look at how Naorem Lasman of Kodompokpi, Imphal West making a living out of rearing pigs though he is not a salaried employee of the Govt.Talking to The Sangai Express about his successful enterprise, Lasman, a veterinary degree holder, said that the variety of pigs he is rearing came from China and is cross-bred.
For the successful rearing of pigs, Lasman gave credit to Head of Animal Sciences Department, Central Agricultural University, M Dhaneshwar.
Lasman said that he received training and knowledge about delivery of piglets and scientific methods of running a piggery farm from Dhaneshwar.
Lasman bought one piglet from one of his friends residing at Irom Meijrao in 2006.Now the pig is fully grown and is about six feet in length and weighs about 150 kgs.
So far the pig has given birth to 96 piglets in six deliveries.
The piglets fetched around Rs 1.5 lakhs, Lasman said with a sense of pride and satisfaction.
Most recently, the pig gave birth to 17 piglets in her seventh delivery.
This has negated the notion of pig farmers that a pig should be sold off after the third delivery because it would not up grow up anymore, Lasman said.
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He further expressed his commitment to keep his pig as long as it could give births so as to show that rearing pigs can substantially augment incomes of a family.
For this, necessary assistance would be sought from experts, he said.
Speaking about feeding, Lasman said that left-over rice, paddy powder, wheat granules, maize, green grass, iodised salt and even Ngari may be mixed together and feed pigs.
Such composite feed can keep pigs healthy.
He said that pig farmers can earn decent incomes by rearing the cross-bred pig variety he is rearing.
According to Head of Animal Sciences Department, CAU M Dhaneshwar, the cross-bred pig variety brought from China was very rare in other parts of India.