{"id":128030,"date":"2020-10-01T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=128030"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:40:03","slug":"piggeries-sustainable-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/piggeries-sustainable-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggeries may provide sustainable market for Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The Puna piggeries can help jump start sustainable markets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Livestock producers in lower Puna on Hawaiʻi<\/span> Island have felt the stinging triple punch of hurricane, lava, and now, a pandemic. To better support and protect these businesses during trying times, the USDA<\/abbr>\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service has created a structure that is effective, practical, in compliance with new Environmental Protection Agency laws—and provides cost-effective pollution prevention.<\/p>\n

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Mike DuPonte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mike DuPonte<\/strong>, an extension agent in the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a>, believes a new deep-litter piggery would facilitate a production program supporting four sows and one boar. The newly designed structure would produce 100 market wean off at 100 pounds average per year.<\/p>\n

The piggery measures about 16’ x 48’, which fits within the County of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Agricultural Building Exemption. Its lower containment walls are composed of concrete blocks on a slab floor, with steel posts supporting a timber-framed metal roof.<\/p>\n

“Piggeries can help these families work toward creating a Puna community where the people are self-reliant, resource-conserving, equitable and ecologically restorative, while providing a good quality of life, today and for future generations,” said DuPonte. “Hog farms start small and expand gradually, so having a pool of small farms is important to long-term sustainability.”<\/p>\n

Technical assistance and reimbursement payments may be available for eligible producers through the USDA<\/abbr>–NCRS<\/abbr> Environmental Quality Incentives Program<\/a>. For more information, contact DuPonte at mduponte@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at CTAHR<\/abbr>\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Render of the USDA-NCRS<\/abbr> piggeries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USDA<\/abbr>–NCRS<\/abbr> has developed a deep-litter piggery that\u2019s resource-conserving and helps livestock producers become self-reliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1314,73,9],"class_list":["post-128030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t