Suitable Breeds - PVNRTVU SHIKSHANA

Tirupathi Varaha (T17)

Large white Yorkshire

Crossbreeds

Tirupathi Varaha (T17)

Large white Yorkshire

Crossbreeds

S. No.	Crossbred pig breeds	Developed by
1	Rani	ICAR-NRC on Pig, Assam
2	HD-K75	AICRP on Pig, CVSc, Assam
3	Mannuthy white	AICRP on Pig, CVSc, Kerala
4	TANUVAS KPM Gold	AICRP on Pig, TANUVAS, Tamil Nadu
5	Asha	ICAR-NRC on Pig, Assam
6	Jharsuk	AICRP on Pig, BAU, Jharkhand
7	Lumniang	AICRP on Pig, ICAR-RC for NEH, Meghalaya
8	SVVU-T17	AICRP on Pig, SVVU, Andhra Pradesh
9	Landly	AICRP on Pig, ICAR-IVRI, Uttar Pradesh

ICAR-CIARI introduced the Rani pig, a cross of the Hampshire and Gunghroo pigs, as an improved breed for pig production in Nagaland.
The Rani pig has a high growth rate, litter size, survival rate and adaptability to the local conditions. ICAR-CIARI also provided training, demonstration, exposure visits and artificial insemination (AI) services for the farmers who adopted the Rani pig.
Rani pig can also enhance pork production, consumption and nutrition

To improve the performance, a new variety of pig developed by ICAR- All India Co-ordinate Research Project (AICRP) on pig, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati, Assam, India crossed Hampshire with indigenous pigs (Doom) and obtained HD-K75 (75% Hampshire and 25% indigenous).
These pigs proved to have high production performance and better adaptability in prevailing condition of Assam and gaining popularity too.
This enabled to availability of quality piglets to the pig farmers of Assam as well as neighbouring states.

The crossbred pig variety developed is white in colour with black spots on head and hind quarters.
Mannuthy White variety has good prolificacy, higher growth rate, better feed conversion efficiency and more dressing percentage compared to indigenous pigs.
The animals have lower back fat thickness than the exotic Large White Yorkshire pigs. The breed can gain 94 kg body weight at slaughter age of 10 months and back fat of 2.10 cm thickness with feed conversion efficiency of 5.50 (dry matter basis).
Mannuthy White is well adapted and suited to low input rearing system of Kerala.

The crossbred pig variety was devolved by crossing Large White Yorkshire with Desi pig of Tamil Nadu.
The inheritance level has been stabilized at 75:25 % for LWY and Desi.
The developed variety is well adapted to local climatic conditions of the state with litter size at birth of 8.1 and average body weight of 72 kg at 8 months.

Asha- Crossbred variety of pig resulting from cross of duroc male breed with a cross of Hampshire X Ghungroo. Duroc, another exotic germplasm, was crossed with Rani.
These animals showed significantly higher body weight and high pre-weaning growth rate.
Adaptable in the local agro -climatic conditions. High Potential Lean Meat Production.

JHARSUK’ was developed by AICRP on Pig, BAU, Ranchi.
It was developed by crossing Tamworth, a British pig and local one having 50% inheritances of both.
The variety can gain approximately 80 kg body weight at slaughter age of 8-10 months. It can produce 8-12 piglets in each farrowing with two farrowing each year.

The variety has been developed by crossing Khasi local pig (Niang Megha) with Hampshire.
Where ‘Lum’ means ‘Hill’ and ‘Niang’ means ‘pig’.
The pig variety has better adaptability in hill ecosystem, climate resilient traits including the body physiology suitable to hill ecosystem, promising growth rate and feed conservation efficiency, good mothering ability with higher litter size at the time of birth and weaning, good carcass quality and consumer preference in the region.
Another key feature of the pig variety is suitable for low input tribal production/backyard pig production system.
The pig variety attained higher body weight of 90-100 kg at 12 months of age, besides higher litter size at weaning as compared to local non-descriptive pigs

The variety was developed by AICRP on Pig Centre located at SVVU by crossing of Large White Yorkshire with Desi pig of the state with 75% exotic inheritance.
The developed crossbred pig variety can attain 85.48 kg body weight at slaughter at the age of 10 months with 8.1 litter size at birth.

This developed cross breed can be reared in all types of managemental conditions and can be fed with low cost feed resources with a good growth rate and standard litter size.
Therefore this can be used by farmers for backyard piggery, small unit piggery (5-20 pigs) farms as well as large commercial units.
These are characterized by high growth rate (480gm/day post wean)
Less time for marketability (100 kg at 8 pm)
Standard litter size at weaning (7-8)
Two farrowings per year.
Good performance in North India
Balanced body (neither wrinkle nor excess fat)
Acceptable to all range of pig farmers.