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Source: The Sangai Express / Tombi Nepram
Imphal, May 31:
The Integrated farming taken up at the College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal has been making remarkable progress.
The integrated farming was taken up by the Animal Sciences Department of CAU in October last year under a one-time funding extended by the Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India.
Under the integrated farming programme, pigs, cattle, fish, ducks and chickens are being reared in the CAU premises, said Prof Dr Dhaneshwar of the Animal Sciences Department, CAU.
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Talking to The Sangai Express, he informed that Hampshire breed of piglets imported last year have fully matured.
In addition to 25 pigs of Hampshire breed, there are 10 more matured pigs of local breed in the farm.
Two/three local pigs have given birth to piglets, while 16 Hampshire pigs are pregnant and are expected to give birth in August, said Dhaneshwar adding that piglets of the imported breed will be available in the farm after August.
The Hampshire breed is highly productive and gets matured in eight months and usually gives birth in the twelfth month.
A fully matured Hampshire pig weighs 200 to 250 kgs.
To provide feed for the animals, a plant called sugar beet has been cultivated in the farm on experimental basis.
Both the leaves and fruits of the plant can be used as feeds for pigs.
The seeds of the sugar beet plant was imported from Israel in November last year.
A sugar beet plant, when fully matured, weighs about 1.5 kg.
Adding two sugar beet plants while preparing feeds of pigs can satiate a pig fully.
The plant is highly nutritious and contains carbohydrate, vitamins A and B complex, conveyed Dhaneshwar.
Prof Dhaneshwar had successfully experimented rearing rabbit, cattle, goats, Japanese quail, broilers etc separately.
Moreover, he is rearing about 1350 numbers of fishes including pengba, rohu, common carf, catla, silver carf and grass carf varieties in the pond located inside the farm.
These fishes are being fed by slurry extracted from the bio gas plant of 6 cubic meter capacity.
The bio gas plant is being run by dungs of pigs alone.
The slurry is rich in protein contents and as such it helps in luxuriant growth of the fishes.
The fishes which will be caught and sold in Ningol Chakkouba time are expected to fetch Rs 1.70 lakh, he calculated.
Even as considerable number of broilers and cattle are being reared in the integrated farm, the number of ducks is far below the desired target.
Nevertheless, the shortage number of ducks will be made up soon, Dhaneshwar informed.
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