The Centre for Pig Production and Research (CPPR), was started in 1965 as a small Pig Breeding Unit along with an Auxiliary Pork Production Scheme under the Department of Animal Husbandry. It was taken up by Kerala Agricultural University in 1972 and was renamed as KAU Pig Breeding Farm with the objective of conducting research on various aspects of pig production, as demonstration unit for farmers and instructional unit for students and to produce and distribute good quality piglets to farmers. A Massive Livestock Development Programme (MLDP) was started in 1993 in collaboration with Deptartment of Animal Husbandry, Kerala with a capital outlay of Rs.70 lakhs with the objective  of distributing 20000 piglets to the farmers in Kerala as breeding and fattner units.

The farm was upgraded to Centre for Pig Production and Research (CPPR), in 1995. The centre has been identified as the Lead Institution for the World Bank funded National Technology Project with a total capital outlay of Rs. 1.5 crores for 1999-2003 with four co-operative Institutions (UAS, Bangalore; Kattupakam; ICAR Research complex, Goa and CARI, Port Blair). At present the centre has a holding capacity of 4000 pigs including growers and piglets with 5 farrowing pens and 5 open styes constructed in a land area of 4 hectares. The station has completed about 42 research projects out which 7 were undertaken under AICRP on Pigs. At present there are about 6 ongoing projects.. All India Coordinated Research Project on Pigs was started in India during the Fourth Five Year Plan ( in the year 1970-71 ) with the main objective of studying the performance of existing breeds of exotic pigs under optimum managemental conditions. Subsequently in view of the direct economic importance of indigenous pigs to the rural people of India and based on the recommendations of fifth workshop ( 1980 ) the objectives and the technical programme of the project were remodeled to include work in indigenous pigs. Based on the remodeled programme a new Centre was established in Centre for Pig Production and Research (CPPR ), Mannuthy during 1993-94.