Pig rearing is tops for profit in India

Want to be a profitable pig farmer? Go west young man, way west. All the way to the district of Dakshina Kannada in India, where the first pig co-operative in the state of Karnataka was inaugurated in late October.  According to The Times of India, Mangalore legislative assembly member N. Yogist Bhat says pig rearing, with a profit of 60 per cent, topped all other types of farming such as poultry, with a mere 30 per cent return, sheep, 22 per cent and dairy with a 10 per cent profit.

Better Pork - December 2010