The per capita consumption of Pork is highest in Nagaland in India. In Nagaland, the tribals’ prefer to consume home grown fresh Pork. Also, there is a cultural preference to black pigs. The pig farming is intermingled with socio-cultural practices of Nagas’. There is an annual demand of almost sixty thousand metric tonnes of pork. But the state’s own production is around thirty thousand tonnes. Therefore, the state is deficit by almost 50%. This demand and supply gap is further increasing owing to increase in human population and decrease in pig population of Nagaland. It imports live pigs as far as from Punjab, Haryana and southern states to meet its demand.
To address the problem of low productivity of Pig production system in Nagaland, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi has implemented the ICAR-Mega Seed Project on Pig at ICAR-Research Complex for North-Eastern Hill Region, Nagaland Centre, Medziphema since the Year - 2009.
In this Project, the...