Nigeria has a vibrant and growing pig farming industry, fueled by a high demand for pork and its by-products.SOME FACTS ABOUT PIG FARMING
They have the potential to be highly prolific, because they are capable of producing large litters after a relatively short gestation period.
Their productivity in terms of yield of meat per tonne of live weight of breeding females per year is in the region of six times that of cattle.
Pork is suitable for processing and some of the processed products have a longer shelf life than fresh meat and can thus be distributed to a wider section of the population.
Pigs are efficient feed converters to meat; twice as efficiently as ruminants (i.e. they have high feed efficiency)
Pig production provides quick turn over on investment compared with cattl