Study of pashu-vigyan incubator in income and employment generation among pig entrepreneurs

Non-ruminant livestock farming like piggery holds tremendous scope for solving the problem of unemployment for the youth while generating a steady source of income in uncertain times by making them Atm-Nirbhar or self-reliant. The present study attempted an overall analysis of the income and employment generation among the pig entrepreneurs of Pashu-Vigyan Incubator. These piggery entrepreneurs were the ones who had attended the Piggery Entrepreneurship Development Program at Agri-Business Incubator IVRI. The study revealed that the average employment generation for family and hired labour were 68.72 and 374.98 man-days respectively and a noteworthy overall employment generation (average of 245 man-days/labour) was seen due to pig enterprises. Substantial change in annual income of the entrepreneurs was observed owing to piggery farming. Majority of them (72.50%) were earning profit from piggery. Almost half of them (44.82%) were making medium level of profit (5-10 lakhs) and almost one third were even earning profit upto 50 lakhs annually. An average profit of Rs. 5,24,382 from piggery enterprises was elucidated and the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) was found to be 1.33.