Heat stress in swine: Impact and strategies to combat
Pigs are more prone to heat stress compare to other farm animals, because they do not have sweat glands, have relatively small lungs, and possess a thick subcutaneous layer of adipose tissue >>>
Pigs are more prone to heat stress compare to other farm animals, because they do not have sweat glands, have relatively small lungs, and possess a thick subcutaneous layer of adipose tissue >>>
Diagnosis of nutritional deficiency diseases is difficult by observation. Clinical symptoms are often product of a combination factors like malnutrition, poor managemental practices and infectious d >>>
Swine flu also known as Swine influenza / Pig influenza / Hog flu / Pig flu. The first reports of influenza like disease in pigs occurred in both US and Europe in conjunction with 1918 Human influenza >>>
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious, devastating disease of pigs and wild boars causing severe mortality. ASF is caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV) >>>
Commercial pig farming in India for meat production is yet to flare up. Also, it is one of the best and profitable business ideas for entrepreneurs. >>>
African swine fever is one of them. It is an important viral disease of pig which is responsible for major economic loses in the pig industry worldwide. African >>>
Pig farming is an age old practice in rural India. Much of the pig farming comprises of rearing indigenous pigs with poor production performance. >>>
Shri Mrinal Sohkhwai (34 years), an unemployed youth from Borkhatsari Village, Marngar Cluster, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya and his family depended mainly on agriculture as a source of income. They used to >>>
The ICAR-National Research Centre on Pig, Guwahati, Assam and Indian Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Research Society (IAAVR), Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh jointly organized the National >>>
The Bihar government has launched a new scheme under the state scheme to promote piggery for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. >>>
Pig rearing has higher potential to contribute to more economic gain for small, marginal farmers or rural poor belonging to the lowest socioeconomic strata due to its following advantages >>>
According to, Functional Food Science in Europe (FUFOSE) : “A food that beneficially affects one or more target functions in the body beyond adequate nutritional effects in a way that is relevant to either an improved state of health and well-being and /or reduction of risk of disease”. >>>
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) has a place with the viral family Circoviridae and the genus Circovirus. Circoviruses are little, single‐stranded nonenveloped DNA infections that have an unsegmented round genome. >>>
In view of the prevailing African Swine Fever which afflicted the state, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today directed Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department to complete culling of the infected swine population before the ensuing Durga Puja. >>>