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A survey study was conducted to evaluate the awareness of pig farmers on scientific pig rearing and management. Awelldesigned questionnaire and personal interview was used for collecting the information. The results revealed that the farmers knew about deworming, iron injection, sanitation, waste disposal and castration but lacked awareness on vaccination and ectoparasite control. Apart from pig farming, farmers were interested in integrated farming, biogas production, expansion of farm and management through cooperative societies' assistance. Digestive disorder was found to be the major problem in pig farming and piglet mortality was mainly due to `Mastitis Metritis Agalactia' (MMA) of the dam, scours, crushing and nutritional deficiency. The prime concern of farmers regarding training was on breeding management rather than on health, feeding and meat processing. The constraints in pig production systems were lack of financial support followed by the unavailability of stock and social risk factor.