Global food crisis has played its negative effects on sustainable development. A question has been raised: how could the families in both rural and urban areas struggle against this present global food crisis? This research aims at documenting household food consumption from January to October 2010 by interviewing with and operating a record keeping system of food consumption in 250 households ...

Achieving high production with limited resources is a major challenge faced by poultry farmers in countries developing economies, such as Pakistan. Optimization of the technical efficiency (TE) business operations promising strategy. A representative sample 210 farms province Punjab Pakistan was analyzed for TE. The studied comprised 105 layer chicken (battery cage system, egg production) and b...

Several elements of the agricultural nonpoint source control program in the Chowan River basin are reviewed to give direction to future efforts. In-stream water quality monitoring, interviews with farmers, and analysis of agricultural production trends have revealed several major points which need consideration in implementation efforts. Due to difficulties in documenting water quality improvem...

energy management is one of the main ways of the efficient use of energy resources. the prediction of crop yields based on energy inputs can help farmers and policymakers to estimate the level of production. required data for study were randomly collected from 70 broiler farms in north west of iran. the input energies were included human labour, machinery, fuel, feed and electricity and the out...

Among the disease challenge, Newcastle (ND) is second most deadly viral infection and considered a very serious problem for poultry production in many countries. Outbreaks of ND have tremendous impact on backyard as well intensively reared commercial farming are an unending agony farmers. During study was observed that currently circulating NDV viscerotropicvelogenic nature responsible outbreak...

Salmonella enterica is frequently associated with outbreaks of human salmonellosis, and products of avian origin, such as eggs and chicken meat, are the main vehicles of its transmission. The present study describes the occurrence of different serovars of Salmonella enterica and phagotypes of S. enterica serovar Enteritidis in eggs destined for human consumption. Four thousand eggs obtained fro...

One hundred and eighty 28-days-old Arbor Acres broiler birds were utilized in a 28 day experiment to investigate the effect of replacing bone ash with eggshell meal in the diet of broiler birds on their nutrient digestibility and blood parameters. Five experimental diets tagged T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 were formulated to be isocaloric (2865.53 kcal ME/kg) and isonitrogenous (20% crude protein) suc...