Netherlands can export pork to India

• Consumers in India, when interested in eating pork, can opt for pigmeat from the Netherlands as from this 
• The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority reported last week that a certificate has been agreed with the Indian authorities for the exporting of pork and pigmeat products.Despite not having a very strong culture of pork consumption, India is a very interesting market for the pig The country has 1.2 billion inhabitants, and in two areas in particular people do eat pork – in the south, around Goa and in the far east, close to the border with Myanmar.

• Between 2010 and 2015, India’s imports of pig meat increased at an average annual rate of 11 percent, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. In 2015, the volume jumped 28 percent from the previous 
• In recent years, the major suppliers of pork to India have been Belgium, Sri Lanka, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands, according to FAS. In 2015, pig meat products also came in from the UK and Germany.
• The basic tariff on imports of pork and pork products is 30 percent.India’s restrictive sanitary import protocol effectively prevents pork exports from the U.S., but early in 2016, the Canadian government secured export market access for its pig meat and 

Import Regulations

• Imports of processed and frozen pork meat into India are overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DAHD). Imports are allowed only upon issuance of a sanitary export certificate signed by the appropriate authority of the exporting country. India must also issue an import permit to the importer in order to ship to India
• The Government of India prohibits importation of specific livestock and livestock products including poultry and poultry products, live swine and swine products from countries reporting the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI)
• Imported pork products face high retail costs due to several factors. These include a fragmented supply chain, local VAT, sales taxes and municipal “octroi” (a tax on

certain goods entering a town), as well as applied tariffs for pork and pork products ranging between 30 and 36% (including CVD – Countervailing Duty)

• end hotels as well as interested middle class consumers. So far, 150 meat processing plants are known to exist throughout India to deal with pork – all working on a small scale in the private
• To give the country’s development a boost, the government proposed schemes to establish modern processing plants and in some states pig producers’ cooperatives are emerging.

Advantages of Pig Farming in India:

Pig farming has many advantages. Here, I am shortly describing the main advantages of starting commercial pig farming business in India:

• Pigs grow faster than any other animals. They have higher feed conversion efficiency. That means, they have a great feed to meat converting ratio. They can convert all types of inedible feeds, forages, certain grains byproduct obtained from mills, damaged feeds, meat byproducts, garbage etc. into valuable, nutritious and delicious 
• Pigs can eat and consume almost all types of feed including grains, damaged food, forage, fruits, vegetables, garbage, sugarcane etc. Sometimes they even eat grasses and other green plants or 

• Pigs become mature earlier than other animals. A sow can be bred for first time at their age of 8-9 months. They can farrow twice a year. And in each farrowing they give birth of 8-12 
• Setting up pig farming business is easy and it requires little capital/investment for building houses and buying equipment.
• The ratio of total consumable meat and total body weight is higher in pigs. We can get around 60 to 80 percent consumable meat from a live pig.
• Pig meat is also one of the most nutritious and tasty meat. It is higer in fat and energy and lower in water.
• Pig manure is a great and widely used fertilizer. You can use this manure for both crop production and in pond for fish farming 
• Pig fat also has a huge demand in poultry feed, paints, soap and chemical industries. And this demand is continuously 
• Pigs grow faster and has a good ROI (returns of investment) ratio. They reach slaughter age earlier compared to other animal. A pig become suitable for slaughtering purpose at their age of 7-9 months. Within this period they reach marketable weight of 70-100 
• Pig meat has a good domestic demand. We can also earn good income by exporting pig products like bacon, ham, lard, pork, sausages to the foreign countries.
• Pig farming business can be a great income opportunities for the small and landless farmers, unemployed educated or uneducated young people and for the rural 
• In a word, commercial pig farming can be a great business idea and income source for the people and it can contribute the national income of our country 

Major Constraints in the Growth of the Pork Industry in India

• The health status of the pigs is poor as they are not necessarily grain-fed. The corn feed needed to raise quality pork in India is not grown cost efficiently to sustain domestic swine herds. India is not a large producer of pork products because of backyard operations, limited commercial farming
• The sector is also constrained as most of the pig farmers belong to the lower socio- economic strata and undertake pig farming as a livelihood rather than scientific pig farming with improved foundation stock, proper housing, feeding and management

• Disease outbreaks often devastate local pig populations
• The two major problems revealed by the pork retailers are that there are protests from Muslims and 80% experienced lack of availability of meat
• A sizeable proportion of the urban and rural households do not consume beef and pork because of religious inhibition