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Organisation
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Nagaland
Empowerment of People through Economic
Development (NEPED), Kohima, Nagaland |
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Project
name
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NEPED-NRTT
livelihood initiative through community
based piggery |
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Grant
operationalised
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April
2009 |
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Duration
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1.5
years |
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Grant
amount sanctioned
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Rs3.54
million |
Activities within
the grant and expected impact:
The project focuses on income generation
of rural communities in the state through
community based piggery. The project will
be piloted in 20 villages in 10 districts.
With the lopsided picture of demand and
supply for both, pork and weaned piglet,
NEPED has conceptualised the need for introducing
‘Pig Breeder’s Family’ within
a cluster of villages.
This new concept shall attempt to:
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Bridge
the gap between demand and supply of
fattened pigs for slaughter |
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Make available
quality weaned piglets to resource poor
households at an affordable price |
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Improve the socio-economic
status of rural families through livestock |
If the proposed NEPED community pig breeding
programme can be successfully replicated
in every village of Nagaland (1,100 villages),
then the present rate of import of piglets
for fattening – 130,000 piglets per
annum - can be easily stopped and thus provide
rural households with an opportunity for
alternate source of sustainable cash income
through piggery.
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