The importance for alternative source of revenue for Nigeria on account of the current global financial meltdown can't be overemphasised. The only supply of alternative income for the country is in agriculture. We must be able to develop the agric sector to provide products for internal along with export markets.

It is through agric that individuals can increase our GDP, provide food and employment opportunities for Nigerians. Establishment of commercial piggery is among the projects that readily go with this situation.

Justification connected with investment

The establishment of the proposed commercial pig farm is usually justified in the following grounds:

Many Nigerians experience malnutrition due to not enough protein in their eating habits. The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) endorses 35 grammes of animal protein per day per person. But a lot less than 7 grammes are eaten for the average in Nigeria.

The vast majority of protein in the foodstuff derives from plants and therefore are only comparatively little from animals. Animal protein is vital because it is of a high biological value and contains the building stones for health and growth.

Animal protein shouldn't be completely substituted by plant protein. It is especially needed from the young, the old as well as the weak. The deficiency is more dangerous in the South of the country than in the North, as the staple diet within the South is monthly based on crops while the North’s the main meat producer.

Sources connected with animal protein are dairy, eggs and meat. For instance, minimum requirement of milk is accepted as ¾ of pint per day, while only 1/10 of that amount is actually ingested, on the average. A large proportion of the population won't drink milk, as dairy is expensive.

The main supply of meat stems from livestock, yet a Nigerian won't eat more than 10 pounds per year, the average American eat almost 10 times just as much.

A good sow – female pig - will farrow twice per year, each time rising as much as 10 piglets while the cow will valve once. The first litter are going to be born when the dam is one full year old, while a cow features her first calf at the age of three.

When the initial calf (beef) is set for market, 30-40 slaughter haps is usually sold from the one particular sow with about 5 to 10 times the volume of edible meat. Pigs replicate faster than cattle; they've got more offspring, which grow with a more rapid rate.

Gains in pigs are definitely more economical than in livestock. To produce 100 kilogrammes connected with live pigs requires 300 kilogrammes of feed from birth to market weight. A steer needs twice as much, it fed adequately. Even though concentrate price is higher for pigs they still can pay twice as well.

Hogs convert 1/5 of the gross energy eaten into feed compared with 1/25 by ruminants (cattle). Pigs convert farm brought up feed into meat more cheaply and even more rapidly than any additional domestic quadruple.

The pig carcass yields a better percentage of dressed meat plus a higher proportion of edible pieces. Pork is higher in energy then other various meats. It is nutritious along with tasty, as slaughter wildlife are comparably young. Pork is palatable and desirable, as it is sensitive than beef.

A slaughtered pig is usually more easily utilised, as very easy require ageing or tenderising. The goods can be smoke, salted, ready-made and stored otherwise; a smaller quantity becomes available anytime and causes less connected with storage and keeping issue. The pig carcass yields a higher dressing percentage, more edible various meats of greater nutritious worth.

The salvage value of the breeding stock is very good. This means that pigs which were used to produce several can still be sold at a relatively high price whenever they have to be sold out. Pigs can be bred anytime of the year than goats that need to be bred at a particular time of the year. Pigs are also a simple yet effective converter of industrial by-products along with agric wastes (including kitchen wastes) into pork.

Social and economic benefits derivable on the project are improvement of the economic well being of the sponsor, generation of employment opportunities, and increase in how much protein consumption thereby improving how much our health care distribution system.

Technical aspect

The project involves design and construction of all the physical infrastructure such as pig pens and exchange of foundation stock connected with pigs (breeders).

The stock female pigs are to endure intensive feeding and breeding when considering giving birth to young ones. The young ones have to be raised at the fattening house to market sizes where they'll be sold to prospective purchasers.

Also, males will be marketed to prospective buyers when they are acquired to support the females.

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your write up is educative but you will not make 30 million naira from keeping 1000 pigs. you forgot to mention feeding cost which make up 70 percent of any livestock cost . management..drugs and vaccines. substrate that and the balance will be the profit. in this case just 8 million at most or less

felixzo1: your write up is educative but you will not make 30 million naira from keeping 1000 pigs. you forgot to mention feeding cost which make up 70 percent of any livestock cost . management..drugs and vaccines. substrate that and the balance will be the profit. in this case just 8 million at most or less

You are absolutely right, don't know why ppl come here to give spurious and ingenious advice, for almost 5/yes of business probably once we have witnesses 15 litter, secondly you struggle most times to get good price for your
Pigs at the point of sale due to so many logistics.
That 30 million is probably in the op dream lab somewhere., def. Not in my farm.

eposho:
You are absolutely right, don't know why ppl come here to give spurious and ingenious advice, for almost 5/yes of business probably once we have witnesses 15 litter, secondly you struggle most times to get good price for your
Pigs at the point of sale due to so many logistics.
That 30 million is probably in the op dream lab somewhere., def. Not in my farm.

are you into pig farming? marketing has always been a problem for small holder farmers in Nigeria
the meat market in Nigeria is mostly seasonal. during festivities .if you want to sell about 200 pigs a week,you wld have to transport them to a major city like Lagos or Ph depending on your location .or kill all and store at -40 degrees and sell in retail over time, this will require you having a meat shop.

felixzo1: are you into pig farming? marketing has always been a problem for small holder farmers in Nigeria
the meat market in Nigeria is mostly seasonal. during festivities .if you want to sell about 200 pigs a week,you wld have to transport them to a major city like Lagos or Ph depending on your location .or kill all and store at -40 degrees and sell in retail over time, this will require you having a meat shop.

Yes we are into pigs rearing, if you have any idea where we can sell our pigs pls drop your details and I will contact you sir.
Thanks.

eposho:
Yes we are into pigs rearing, if you have any idea where we can sell our pigs pls drop your details and I will contact you sir.
Thanks.

what is your location and how many pigs do you have

Location is in remo axis, and we have loaaaaads.interested ? drop your details or contact me at
Ateifarms@yahoo.co.uk.
Thanks.

eposho: Location is in remo axis, and we have loaaaaads.interested ? drop your details or contact me at
Ateifarms@yahoo.co.uk.
Thanks.

please more details of farm location and available number of pigs for sale and their weight range,breed of pigs. please be honest

What's your point, drop your details and we talk or contact the mail add.
What do I gain by deceit ?, i have got weaners, growers and finishers.
Been breading for last five years now.,so if you are serious let me know.

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I'm planning on going into pig farmer by. Next year.... The pens are already into construction. But I don't knw the costs of pigs yet, weaners, in-sow, gilts and others, I will also want to knw how/where I can get brewerers mash and its relative cost? Thanks in advance

eposho:

Yes we are into pigs rearing, if you have any idea where we can sell our pigs pls drop your details and I will contact you sir.
Thanks.

please i want to go into pig farming.i already have purchased a plot of land.i intend to do piggery, grass cutter ,snaileryl, goat rearing,and fish farming. Intend to combine all of them in the land,even though all of them are to be done with the basic measurement.my question is this,what is the minimum unit i should buy to start a pig farm,and the spacing measurement required...also i hope i can combine all the above animals in one space.thanks..please your responses are required.

olaleg:
I'm planning on going into pig farmer by. Next year.... The pens are already into construction. But I don't knw the costs of pigs yet, weaners, in-sow, gilts and others, I will also want to knw how/where I can get brewerers mash and its relative cost? Thanks in advance

please, how did you go about the pen construction,and what is ur idea size of the farm,as well as cost of building the pen,i too am starting next year,i just want to have all info available thankx

emperorlero:
please i want to go into pig farming.i already have purchased a plot of land.i intend to do piggery, grass cutter ,snaileryl, goat rearing,and fish farming. Intend to combine all of them in the land,even though all of them are to be done with the basic measurement.my question is this,what is the minimum unit i should buy to start a pig farm,and the spacing measurement required...also i hope i can combine all the above animals in one space.thanks..please your responses are required.

youu want to confine pig and grass cutters in one place? R. I. P to the grass cutters

olaleg:
I'm planning on going into pig farmer by. Next year.... The pens are already into construction. But I don't knw the costs of pigs yet, weaners, in-sow, gilts and others, I will also want to knw how/where I can get brewerers mash and its relative cost? Thanks in advance

Price of weaners depends on breed; from N2000 to around N10,000. Gilts & boars are sold for btw N280-N350 per kg.
Brewerers mash, depending on your location, you can get direct from breweries or buy from middle men (either wet or dried). Dried spent grain here in ibadan is around N11,000 per ton.

please where and how much can I get a piglet the white ones

lordzy2005:
please where and how much can I get a piglet the white ones

I may just let go some of my fast growing weaners for u. Sango/Ifo axis of ogun state. mail me on adeola7070@gmail.com. Sorry can't let go of my phone number here.

dripstoil:

[size=14pt]A single pig gives birth to as much as 15 piglets at a time, making it one of the most reproducing mammal in the world. Baby pigs is known as shoat, farrow or piglet. Male pigs are referred to as the boar while females are sows. As a group they are called a herd or drove.

Read The Step by Step Article How to Start Pig Farming in Nigeria on WealthResult.com

http://www.wealthresult.com/2013/08/how-to-start-pig-farming-in-nigerian.html

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Pls @dripstoil, is there a way I can contact you. I want to brief you on something. Thanks

Emmysteve:
youu want to confine pig and grass cutters in one place? R. I. P to the grass cutters

oooooo....they don't go together then ?...

please visit www.pigs-nigeria.com

Any pig farmer in abeokuta pls lets talk. 07039388167.