Pig Production

By R. M. Acharya

Pig Production - R. M. Acharya
  • Release Date: 2018-06-30
  • Genre: Life Sciences

Description

This book is based on an extensive review of literature available in the country on various aspects of pig production, health and products technology and the current limitations and the opportunities for increasing pig production both as an economic activity and as a source of protective food. The current R&D efforts, their strength and weaknesses and what more needs to be done and how the R&D should be organized so that pig production can be economically feasible and socially acceptable and can generate production technologies which would be acceptable to the pig keepers in India at present and in the foreseeable future areas are required urgent concentration by R&D. The book is expected to be used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and identifying research priorities and laying down a roadmap for sustainable pig production under various agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions, currently prevailing in the country and that are likely to arise in the near future.