Six reasons why Uganda's pig business will grow

摘要

The pig business has been increasing in Uganda since the late 1980s. Ever since, the African country's pig business can be characterised as'growing bit by bit'. There are reasons to believe that in the future there's more growth to come.Pig farming is widely practised in all regions of Uganda 'with high concentrations around the central region. Unlike other key agricultural enterprises, over the last three decades, pig farming has experienced funda-mental improvement in the number of both pigs reared and households that rear at least one pig. This has been possible, despite the limited government support for the pig subsector and the fact that pigs are not considered among the 20 priority sub-programmes of the country's Agricultural Sector Development Strategy and Investment Plan (DSIP). This despite the fact that about 17.8% of all households (i.e., about 1.1 million) own at least one pig in Uganda. The number of pigs increased from 0.19 millionin 1980 to 3.2 million in 2008, according to the national livestock census 2018.