The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) is scheduled to ink a deal with the Danish government for setting up India’s first pig schools, preferably with a centralised academy.
BTC rules the 8,970 sq. km region comprising four Bhutan-bordering districts of the Assam.
50 farmers travel to Denmark to learn various aspects of piggery from rearing to making pork products.
The seeds of the pig schools were sown in September 2021.
The State has 15.89% the highest of the total population of pigs in India.
The pig school will be based on the Folk School concept that Dalum Landbrugsskole.