Livestock plays an important role in the economy of Mizopam as crop production is still traditional. Pig occupies a unique place, as pig rearing is considered to be the most encouraging and appropriate livestock enterprise. The present study was undertaken to find out management practices, source of information, and adoption of technologies by the pig farmers in Mizoram. From the study it is found that pigs were reared in stalls. The space provided to the adult pigs was inadequate. The farmers preferred cross-bred animals to rear. The overall adoption level of the farmers on pig rearing was...

A Self Help Group (SHG) is an informal homogeneous democratic group of 10-20 people joining together voluntarily to deal with common problems with an underlying philosophy of mutual help and collective wisdom. In India, the micro-credit schemes using SHGs were designed against the background of failure of the earlier rural development schemes. SHGs, which are instrumental in empowering rural poor, are adopting dairy farming is one of the important activities and significantly contributing in empowering the group members socially and economically. Various agencies are nurturing SHGs in Assam....