Workshop on Bodoland Pig Mission with expert from Denmark held in Kokrajhar

KOKRAJHAR: A workshop on the Bodoland Pig Mission was organized by the Bodoland Territorial Council with the participation of the Danish Consortium of Academic Craftsmanship (DCAC), Denmark was inaugurated by BTC Chief Pramod Boro in Guwahati on Tuesday.

Boro in his welcome address mentioned that the objective of the Bodoland Pig Mission was to overhaul the traditional piggery sector through modern scientific interventions, training, and motivational programmes. He emphasizing the potential of piggery in Bodoland and mentioned the need to encourage and support small and medium-scale pig farms in the region.

Mission in-charge and eminent rural economy expert Pushpadhar Das mentioned that Bodoland Pig Mission was launched to modernize and uplift the piggery sector for transforming traditional livelihoods into sustainable economic activity, generating 1 lakh kg of pork per day by the fifth year, production of 1700 quality piglets per day, and 3 lakh pigs to be made available on any day. The mission envisages the direct involvement of 30,000 households in pork production activities, additional involvement of 20,000 farmers in feed raw material production, and about 5,000 direct employment generation in non-farm support activities.

The Bodoland Pig Mission will collaborate with the Denmark Government in the areas of capacity building, educational cooperation, and mentorship to strengthen the mission. DCAC expert Niels Erik Jesperson gave a comprehensive presentation on the piggery sector in Denmark in the technical session. The roadmap for the mission related to scientific rearing, quality piglets, veterinary science, and feed management was discussed in details. Piggery Entrepreneur and Asom Gaurav awardee Manoj Basumatary spoke on the multiple modules of training being undertaken for the benefit of the pig farmers through the mission.

The three-day workshop will include field tours to different districts of BTR and a session under the aegis of the North East Desk of the Investindia Programme of the Government of India.