Labour Utilisation Patterns in Private Unorganized Swine Farms of Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

The current study was aimed at knowing the labour use patterns in private unorganized swine farms of Andhra Pradesh and estimating the optimum human resource requirements for them. It was conducted for a period of 3 months at the S.N.G Pork center and V.Y.N Agro Farm located in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Only one labour was employed in each farm. Unlike the orgnaized farms, the cleaning of pens (performed on alternate days) and feeding (twice a day) were the only activities performed in the private unorganized swine farms. The total cleaning activity required 3.37 ± 0.17 and 5.85 ± 0.23 man-minutes/pen and the labour time required for cleaning of passage alley was 1.49 ± 0.13 and 1.16 ± 0.05 man-min in S.N.G Pork center and V.Y.N Agro Farm, respectively. The time spent on feeding activities as a whole was 1.62 ± 0.03 and 1.46 ± 0.04 man-minutes/pen/day in the two farms respectively. It was concluded that on an average, the cleaning and feeding require 4.61 and 1.54 man-minutes/pen/day, respectively. Comparative production and economic studies are needed to justify the high expenditure on labour for scientific management in the organized swine farms.