Panaji: Eating pork could be a cheap protein fix for Indians and cultivation of rapidly multiplying pigs will boost income for rural farmers as well as increase exports, says a study in a souvenir published by the organisers of a right-wing science conclave.

Eknath Chakurkar, a principal scientist at the Goa unit of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), has in his article emphatically advocated a pork revolution of sorts in India, which he claims could be a one-shot solution for protein, revenue and foreign exchange.