- Agriculture
Project Name:Pig Industry Enhancement Project Phase II in Eswatini
Project status:Projects in Operation
Cooperating Country:Africa, Kingdom of Eswatini
Project Description:
The proposed second phase of PIEP, referred to as PIEP II, will build on the successes of the first phase to further enhance the pig industry supply chain in Eswatini. The main components of PIEP II include: 1. Improving the pig breeding system at Mpisi Pig Breeding Station by supplying pure line breeding pigs to potential farmers to increase the supply of highquality hybrid gilts, thus increasing the proportion of farmers with quality breeding pigs; 2. Conducting national training on breeding management, nutrition, artificial insemination and other techniques aimed at improving farmers' production efficiency; 3. Establishing a national pig identification and traceability system to link sources of pigs with registered abattoirs for hygienic pig slaughter; and 4. Facilitating market linkages by enabling the signing of production and/or marketing contracts between farmers and pork wholesalers, and establishing a frozen carcass stacking lease mechanism to regulate the Eswatini pork market demand and stabilize marketing channels affecting pork supply and demand.
Project No:TT-310-2021-027
Implementation Start Date:2021-01-01
Implementation End Date:2025-12-31
Project Objectives:Improve the operating environment of the pig industry in Eswatini; increase farmers' productivity and income by 15 percent from the 2020 benchmark by the end of the project.
Executing Agency:
Ministry of Agriculture Taiwan Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini / Department of Veterinary and Livestock Services
Current Progress:
By the end of December 2023, the following activities have been implemented:
1. Establish pure breed system,select breeding stock of forth generation of 13 pure Landrace, 13 of pure Large White and 4 of pure Duroc.
2.Maintain the 120 purebred pigs populations at Mpisi pig breeding station.
3. Establish cross breed gilt supply system, produce 1360 two-crossbred gilts produce in total from Mpisi in total.
4.Assist farmers to breed totally 122 sows and select 477 gilts.
5.Promote the pigbase systems, totally 960 farmers were recorded.
6.Asist 10 pig farmers in signing purchase contracts with pork wholesalers. They sold 2,217 pigs and produced about 200 ton pork.
7.Conduct 59 workshops for farmers on piggery management, totally 1,619 articipants. Conduct 2 workshop for pig hygienic slaughter, totally 28 participants of abattoir worker.
Project Contact:Wang,Yen-Chih
Phone:+886-2-2888-6054
E-mail:y.j.wang@icdf.org.tw
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