Address: Rani (Near Airport), Guwahati

National Research Center on Pig is started to act as a repository of information on pig production and health for regional, national and global policy planning and implementation. It also works to undertake basic, strategic and applied research in the areas of pig production and health including product/by-product processing, value addition through quality control measures and transfer of the evolved technologies to the client groups.

NRC has a well established pig farm with about 500 pigs beloning to different breeds/strains. The Breeds/strains maintained are Hampshire, Duroc, Gungroo, Meghalaya and Nagaland Local pigs. It also has a testing laboratory and R&D Pork Processing Plant.

NRC also conducts training on "Advanced pig husbandry practices". You can check ongoing research projects at Link