Evaluation of smallholder pig production systems in North Vietnam: Pig production management and pig performances
- 31 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Livestock Science
- Vol. 105 (1-3), 229-243
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2006.06.012
Abstract
This study investigated the productive adaptability of pig breeds under different smallholder production conditions in Vietnam, comparing an indigenous with a Vietnamese improved breed. Fieldwork was conducted in four villages with different remoteness in North Vietnam from 2001 to 2002, in 64 households keeping the improved Mong Cai or indigenous Ban as sow breeds and progeny for fattening. Four visits per farm yielded 234 structured interviews. Reproductive performances were derived from 135 litters. Individual weights of pigs (n = 755) were obtained. Data were analysed by regression, linear and generalised linear, especially loglinear models.Keywords
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