© 2020 PP House Reproductive and Production Performance of Andaman Local Pig of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India under Intensive System of Rearing M. S. Kundu, P. Perumal, S. K. Ravi, D. Bhattacharya, A. Kundu, Jai Sunder, K. Muniswamy, Sneha Sawhney and A. K. De* Division of Animal Science, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Insttute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands (744 101), India 1. Introducton The domestc animal biodiversity acts as genetc manoeuvring room for future generaton. But, the livestock diversity is at risk due to intensive or even industrialized producton systems that make for impressive outputs of meat, milk and eggs (Pan et al., 2005). Since most of the wild relatves of today’s domestcated animals are extnct, the main source of such material now lies with the livestock raised by herders and farmers under extensive, subsistence-oriented producton systems in the developing or under developed countries. Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands is one of such underdeveloped area in respect of livestock rearing. These islands are endowed with immaculate fora and fauna biodiversity (Kundu et al., 2010). The indigenous livestock germplasm namely pig, goat and Article History RECEIVED in 08 th November 2019 RECEIVED in revised form 22 nd January 2020 ACCEPTED in fnal form 14 th February 2020 Andaman local pig, reproductve, growth performances, carcass characteristcs Keywords: Andaman local pig (ALP) is available in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI), associated with socio-economic of tribal populaton. ALP is semi-feral, reared in free-range system with low management. However, populaton of ALP has reduced signifcantly due to Tsunami in 2004. No systematc study was conducted to explore the potental of ALP. Therefore, a systematc study was conducted on growth and reproductve parameters. Reproductve parameters like liter size, total and individual liter weight at birth, liter size, total and individual liter weight at weaning and pre and post-weaning mortality were recorded. Growth parameters like body weights from month 1 to 9 were recorded. Besides these, dressing per- centage, meat: bone rato, fat thickness and percentage of lean, fat and bone were recorded. Results revealed that signifcantly (p≤0.05) higher body weights were observed from month 1 to 9 in male than female. Similarly, signifcantly higher values in reproductve parameters were observed in male than female. Carcass characters like dressing percentage, meat: bone rato and fat thickness did not difer signifcantly between genders whereas percentage of lean, fat and bone difered signifcantly between them. Fat percentage in female and percentage of lean and bone in male were higher signifcantly than in other sex. It is concluded that growth, reproductve performances and carcass characteristcs of ALP reared under intensive system has signifcantly higher in male than in female and it is baseline informaton for conservaton and propagaton of ALP in ANI. ALP breed is well adapted to the intensive system of rearing. Abstract A. K. De e-mail: biotech.cari@gmail.com Corresponding Author Natural Resource Management Research Article Open Access Citation: Kundu et al., 2020. Reproductive and Production Performance of Andaman Local Pig of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India under Intensive System of Rearing. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 2020, 11(1), 020-026. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.23910/ IJBSM/2020.11.1.2055a. Copyright: © 2020 Kundu et al. Tis is an open access article that permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium after the author(s) and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: Legal restrictions are imposed on the public sharing of raw data. However, authors have full right to transfer or share the data in raw form upon request subject to either meeting the conditions of the original consents and the original research study. Further, access of data needs to meet whether the user complies with the ethical and legal obligations as data controllers to allow for secondary use of the data outside of the original study. Confict of interests: Te authors have declared that no confict of interest exists. Acknowledgement: Te authors are thankful to the Director, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and This research work was supported by a grant from ICAR-AICRP on Pig. All authors recognize and acknowledge the Head and Staf of Animal Science Division for their eforts. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management February 2020 Print ISSN 0976-3988 Online ISSN 0976-4038 Journal Home: htps://pphouse.org/ijbsm.php Artcle AR2055a IJBSM 2020, 11(1):020-026 DOI: HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.23910/IJBSM/2020.11.1.2055a 020