Over the years, role and strength of dairy goat is increasing in Barani Tract of Punjab. The bread and butter needs of poor and small household are largely depends on livestock specifically on the dairy goats. The 80 percent livestock management activities are mostly depends upon women; therefore under the experimentation of feed supplementation mainly women's were included as research partners...

crop production technologies. In many regions, livestock are also a means of storing capital, of buffering Many semiarid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are experiencfood shortages in years of poor crop production, and of ing vast increases in human population pressure and urbanization. meeting social and religious obligations of farmers. These augment the demand for agricultural products a...

The livestock production system is considered equally sensitive to climate change as that of core agriculture system and at the same time livestock itself is also contributing to the phenomenon. The present paper attempts to analyze the sensitivity of livestock productivity in rainfed regions to climatic variability, significance of climate change with respect to Indian livestock and mitigation...

The high environmental costs of raising livestock are now widely appreciated, yet consumption of animal-based food items continues and is expanding throughout the world. Consumers’ ability to distinguish among, and rank, various interchangeable animal-based items is crucial to reducing environmental costs of diets. However, the individual environmental burdens exerted by the five dominant lives...

WK E HAVE had to revamp many of our old ideas about feeding livestock. War proved again the tremendous importance of food. Wc had to get all the milk, eggs, poultry, meat, pork, lard, beef, veal, lamb, and mutton we could and make every tittle of grain count in doing so. Chicken was compared with hog and hog with steer to see which yielded the most nutrients for humans in return for the least f...

While not a new ingredient in livestock feed, the volume available and the relative price of DDGS have forced many feed manufacturers into using greater levels than ever before. The use of DDGS has caused feed manufacturing problems at nearly every phase of feed manufacturing. These include railcars that simply won’t unload, feeder screws and supply bins that are wrong for the ingredient, nutri...

It has been suggested that the ecological impact of crickets as a source of dietary protein is less than conventional forms of livestock due to their comparatively efficient feed conversion and ability to consume organic side-streams. This study measured the biomass output and feed conversion ratios of house crickets (Acheta domesticus) reared on diets that varied in quality, ranging from grain...

The present study endeavors to investigate the attitudes, opinions and perceptions of livestock farmers regarding the main problems they face and confine the development of livestock in the Greek region of Evros. Primary data were collected through a quantitative survey (structured questionnaire) with livestock farmers in the region. The analysis of the survey data was carried out with the use ...