2 weeks Ago By postcourieronline
GROWING and looking after pigs is a norm for the Highlands people, however, pig breeding is very confusing today when it comes to meeting the expected demand. Seeing this huge gap, Albert Kuma from Minj in Jiwaka Province started utilising this very important idea to make more money to sustain himself. “Jiwaka is a very fertile valley with people having an inbuilt ability to feed and grow pig, because the cost of each pig ranges from K1000 to K7000.
Pig is also used to relieve community obligations like bride price, death ceremony, compensation, school fees and other basic needs,” Kuma said. However, he said, almost all formal gatherings pose a high demand on quality bred pigs and he has this idea. Mr Kuma said people from all across the Highlands region travel to Minj to have him breed their pigs.
“I wish to share my idea of pig breeding with others especially the youths in Jiwaka Province to have them engaged in this money making business rather than wasting time on consuming illegal drug and, homebrew,” he said. Mr Kuma said he now has more than 20 full grown female pigs that give birth to high quality breed piglets that are bought by the people from the seven Highlands provinces to start their own farms. He said each breeding piglets were sold for K200 but due to a high pricing of pig feed at the stores, the price of breeding piglets were now K400 each.
“As I am breeding pigs for customers, I also invite youths and interested farmers along with respective authorities such as the Agriculture and Livestock officers to provide trainings to share my knowledge and ideas on pig breeding in Jiwaka and for those interested. “It is sad to say that Jiwaka needs a place to slaughter live pigs to produce pork meat,” Mr Kuma said. He has aimed to expend his piggery to be the centre point of pig breeding in the highlands region.
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