Piggery

Oink, Oink, Pork And Rashers

 

It may just be oink and dirt, but inmates of the Minimum Security Prisons are learning useful pig husbandry at the small piggery at the Naboro Prison farm complex. “We only have 69 breeders,” says Staff Officer (Farms) PPO Ifereimi Nakitorotoro says, “but we hope to fill up all the 44 pens by the end of the year and fill them all up.”

Inmates are taught all the skills in good pig husbandry which they can use when are released from prison, especially if they return to their villages. The piggery hopes to have 350 breeders when it is in full capacity with a potential income of $94,000 annually.

The piggery is presently consolidating its operations with repairs being done to the 24 pens that are not habitable.

The piggery sells weaners, porkers and baconers. The upgrade of the piggery operations is among the potentials the FPCS are looking at in its new direction towards heightened commercial activities.

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