Manipur Progressive Pig Farmers’ Association reported earlier that around 90 per cent of the pigs have died due to an unknown disease in five different valley districts of Manipur.
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How African Swine Fever – and government inaction – pushed Assam’s pig farmers into penury
The sector was flourishing till the virus wiped out farm after farm across the state last year as the government failed to cull the animals in time. A dead pig being carried to a pit to be buried. | Special arrangement.
Diganta Saikia came back home to Dibrugarh’s Khowang from Delhi in 2015 to help manage the family businesses. But soon the 31-year-old spotted another business opportunity that aligned well with his interests: pigs and pork.
His brother who had also left his life in Bengaluru recently to start anew in Assam harboured similar plans. “One day, I told my brother I want to keep five pigs, and he told me, ‘Even I want to keep five pigs,’” Saikia recalled in a telephone conversation.
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GUWAHATI: Pig farmers from Punjab and Haryana have offered to help the African swine fever hit farmers of Assam by giving piglets or breeding-stock to enable the latter to restart their business.
The offer of help from outside farmers came during the recent meeting of the North East Progressive Pig
Farmers Association (NEPPFA) held in Tezpur in Sonitpur district. The meeting was organized to work out practical and effective strategies for rejuvenation of the African swine fever hit piggery sector of Assam. Besides affected commercial pig farmers from various districts of Assam, a group of representative farmers from Punjab and Haryana were also present in the meeting.