Eyeing Rs 200 crore annually, Punjab Government has decided to sign an agreement under which the State would supply live pigs to Nagaland.
Announcing this, the State Animal Husbandry Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said: “The State of Punjab would soon start supplying live pigs to the State of Nagaland at the rate of 8,000 live pig per month thus earning Rs 200 crore annually for the pig famers of Punjab.”
Sidhu, chairing the meeting with the high level delegation of the Nagaland Government, said that the Memorandum of Understanding in this regard would be signed in the coming days.
“The delegation expressed keen interest in importing live pigs from Punjab as the people of Nagaland consider pork meat of Punjab full of nutritious value, hygienic and healthy as compare to the pork of others part of the country,” he said.
He said that as per the understanding reached out in the meeting, 8,000 live pigs would be supplied every month to Nagaland. “To start with, 100 live pigs would be sent to Nagaland which would be put on exhibition at different places of Nagaland to create interest among the people and to generate more demand. The health certificate of the pigs, to be supplied to Nagaland, would be issued by the Punjab Government,” he said.
Sidhu said that the deliberations for the supply of Punjab’s chicken and fish to the Nagaland were also held during the meeting. Proposal to impart training in Punjab to the progressive farmers and veterinary doctors of Nagaland was also put forward by Sidhu before the visiting delegation.
Later, the delegation visited pig farm at Nabha and Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Ludhiana.