Use for breeding Celtic pigs

The objective of this Operational Group is to take advantage of the biomass production of the forest as food for animals, supplementing it with feed, and also to carry out the study of quality parameters of the carcass and meat from this breeding system.

The aim is to establish a semi-extensive pig farming system to exploit the resources produced by the forest in a sustainable and economically profitable way.

Contributing to the control of plant biomass by reducing undergrowth, which translates into more effective control of forest fires, as well as helping rural development by establishing population in a disadvantaged area, potentially creating a model that can easily be extrapolated to other areas of Galicia.

The compatibility of the proposed livestock model with silvopastoral use to increase the profitability of farms will be linked to the study of an efficient management system aimed at quality meat production linked to an area of origin and a pig breed.