Beware of these five costly myths about pigs

Dear Daktari

I am a regular reader of Smart Harvest especially your column. I am a pig farmer, but it has not been easy walk. When I started off there were a lot of myths that could have easily discouraged me but having worked in Kiambu during my youth I saw how farmers benefited from pig farming and when I came back home I made up my mind to undertake it. I think a little education on the pig as a profitable animal will help dispel some of the myths on the ground for instance pigs are dirty, they eat dirt and they are kept by witches and are not to be eaten by pregnant women among other lies.[John Mbau, Murang’a]