By the 1880s the district was also an important dairy and pig raising area.

Pig raising and consumption is limited to the country's Christian minority, estimated at 10 percent of the population.

As part of its efforts, the university has held training courses to help participants improve their pig raising, rice management, and cassava growing skills.

Eighty-three families are still involved in pig raising.

With pig raising and consumption almost entirely confined to Christians, some see the slaughter as having religious overtones.

At the end of a year's arduous pig raising, Xiao-her was accepted into the Party.

A good example is pig raising.

Pig raising is one of the most successful and popular means of assisting poor families, and particularly women.

Pig raising, beef cattle, lucerne and summer grains are other important sources of farm income.

There is also cattle and pig raising.

He also demonstrated pig raising and the making of butter, cheese, ham and sausage.

Since then pig raising and slaughtering has become less common in Czech villages and towns.

Business skills training has been provided for entrepreneurs in pig raising, greenhouse vegetables, wool spinning and agricultural processing.

Except the northern and southern parts the whole of the province is plain and fertile area used for agriculture and pig raising.

Some of the most common specialties were trucking, chicken raising, pig raising, and technical agricultural services, such as irrigation and pest control.

But without other, less obvious considerations - such as home design, pig raising, and use of the spade - that devastating equation might not have come to be.

Indoor piggeries have allowed pig farming to be undertaken in countries or areas with unsuitable climate or soil for outdoor pig raising (e.g., Australia).

Small-scale pig raising is the main activity of rural women, and it was shown that they would benefit from a participatory education program presenting them with better practices and alternatives.

In the communities, people say that the activities have led to improved practices and increased awareness, such as improved production in pig raising and less cutting of flooded forests.

As more forest was cleared there was a decline in wild food resources and protein produced from hunting, which was substituted for by an increase in domestic pig raising.

Pig raising will be restarted in two years at specially constructed farms in the countryside using newly imported animals, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture told Egyptian media.

They not only face the unusually high risks of farming, but as pig raising has moved indoors, they are now exposed to the lethal gases produced by decomposing pig waste.

Egyptian officials now say the pig cull is a general health measure and pig raising will be allowed in two years, though it will be in proper farms far from population centres.

One of the added difficulties that Papua New Guinea faces is that approximately 72% of its workforce works in the 'traditional' rural economy involved in growing vegetables, tree crops and pig raising.

Theirs has been a most difficult row to hoe, due to the fact in the UK the pig farmers had to comply with rules and regulations regarding pig raising which our mainland European neighbours were not bound to until this year.