Pig farmers script success story in State

They may not be as popular as cattle or poultry yet, but pigs — numbers indicate — are increasingly hogging the attention of livestock farmers in Kerala who have come to appreciate their worth as money-spinners. The pig population in the State has shot up by 86.19% over a seven-year period, reveals the 20th Livestock Census carried out by the Statistics Division of the Animal Husbandry Department. The population has increased from 55,782 animals in the 2012 headcount to 1,03,863 animals in 2019. The findings of the 20th Livestock Census were published on Friday.