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Director's
Message
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Developing
countries like
India are faced
with the challenge
to increase the
agricultural productivity
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only
to reduce the
human hunger,
but also to meet
the demand for
nutritious food
for the growing
populations. Animal
husbandry is the
important sub-sector
of agriculture
in the country,
which is playing
the most important
role in the livelihood
of rural poor.
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About
the Institute:
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The
mid term appraisal committee constituted
by ICAR in 1990 to review the
work of the All India Coordinated
Centres on Pig recommended the establishment
of one National Research Centre on
Pig preferably in the North Eastern
part of the country where 28% of countrys
pig population is distributed. Following
the recommendation, ICAR approved
the establishment of one NRC on pig
at Rani, Guwahati, Assam towards the
fag end of the IX five year plan.
All existing AICRP centres were merged
with the NRC and the post of project
coordinator was upgraded to the position
of Director.
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Vision:
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To
bring in excellence in pig production,
health and product processing through
innovative research in order to provide
technology backstopping for enhanced
pork production, employment generation
and poverty reduction among socially
and economically weaker sections through
the medium of pig husbandry.
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Mission:
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Performance
appraisal and genetic cataloguing
of indigenous pigs, development of
improved pig variety together with
production, health, product processing
and pig based integrated farming system
technologies to facilitate the pig
rearers of the country achieving household
food, nutritional and economic security.
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