Estudo para implantação de uma central de inseminação artificial de suínos no campus de engenharias e ciências agrárias – CECA/UFAL, no município de Rio Largo/AL

Abstract

This work to be carried out in the pig farming sector of the UFAL Campus of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences in Rio Largo-Al, aims to assist small pig producers in the surrounding region, with regard to the reproductive process of their herds, seeking in this way way to provide the genetic improvement of the herds, minimize the production costs, besides considerably eliminating the spread of diseases, since it is a recurrent practice the loan of reproducers between breeders and the use of natural mating carried out in neighboring farms. municipalities of Maceió, Satuba, Coqueiro Seco, Santa Luzia do Norte, Satuba, Pilar, Messias, Murici, Joaquim Gomes, Marechal Deodoro, Paripueira and Rio Largo, having as its operational base, the Pig Breeding Sector of the Campus of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences of UFAL. A survey was carried out using pig production data and an agricultural census, provided by the recent Vaccination Campaign against Classical Swine Fever– CVCPSC, in Alagoas. The objective of which was to evaluate the feasibility of implanting in the municipality of Rio Largo/AL, in the Campus of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences of UFAL, an artificial insemination center for swine and piglet production.