Coconut water is a trendy alternative to sports drinks for many people, despite a lack of scientific evidence to prove it is any more hydrating than regular water. But now, researchers in Uganda have ...

Uganda is the country with the highest demand for pork in East Africa, and the International Livestock Research Institute estimates that per capita consumes 3.4 kg of pork annually. However, many ...

Advances in pig genetics are rapidly changing breeding and herd management. With digital phenotyping and artificial ...

A crucial stage of the artificial insemination (AI) process is the period between semen doses leaving the breeding company and them being used to inseminate sows. If doses aren’t stored and handled ...

Smallholder pig farmers in Mashonaland East and West provinces have yielded significant benefits from an artificial insemination (AI) programme jointly rolled out by the European Union (EU) and ...

KAMPALA - Dr. Micheal Buwembo, a piggery expert, has told farmers that artificial insemination not only saves them from the expenses of feeding boars, but also ensures that they get premium breeds ...

It is all eyes on the Chinese market once again. Many pig breeding companies sense that a new round of opportunities has ...

Whenever John Kizito who has a piggery in Wakiso District notices that one of this three female pigs (sows) is on heat, he takes it a kilometre away to another farm, which has males, to mate. “It is ...

Zipline, an aerial logistics delivery company, and Piper Pretty Farms, a livestock business empowering pig farmers in Ghana, have joined forces to deliver swine semen for artificial insemination to ...

A new AI station has been commissioned in Malta using stock, expertise and equipment from British firms including a Beeford based pig breeding company. Funded by KIM, Malta’s pig co-operative, it will ...