Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
A group of Yaks at the National Yak Research and Breeding Centre, Arunachal Pradesh. File Photo The Hindu A group of Yaks at the National Yak Research and Breeding Centre, Arunachal Pradesh. File Photo The population of yak, the friendly long-haired bovine found in the Himalayan region, is rapidly declining …
A new technology aims at developing area-specific mineral mixtures for cattle to remove nutritional imbalanceSurinder Sud / New Delhi August 10, 2010, 0:42 ISTInadequate mineral (micro-nutrients) intake by cattle is among the significant factors responsible for their low productivity and deficient fertility. Most cattle owners are least aware of this. …
An experience sharing meeting on Australian origin hybrid Sweet Jumbo grass farming for farmers was held in remote char village of Bozra Diarkhata under Chilmari upazila in Kurigram on Sunday. Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) organised the meeting under the Char Livelihood Programme (CLP) to encourage the char people in farming …
Director-general of ICAR Mangla Roy inaugurates a poultry centre at BAU on Sunday. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 8: Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Ranchi, is well on the path to take its annual piglet production from 600 to over 2,000 per year, thanks to a mega seed project funded …
Mineral status and some physiological parameters of Lannea coromandelica (Houtt) Merr. (Anacardiaceae) were estimated during leaf active growth period. Lannea coromandelica is widely used in afforestation and social forestry programmes to meet the fuelwood and fodder demand as well as to maintain ecological balance and environmental stability. Dec 2007
medicinal plants have traditionally been used as part of animal feed to enhance nutrition and treat digestive disorders. In a recent experiment it was found that drumsticks (Moringa oleifera) and kutki (Picrorhiza kurroa) help animals
cattle feed manufactured in Punjab under various brand names contain harmful quantities of limestone powder (lsp) and urea, the Punjab Dairy Development Department (pddd) warned recently. This adversely affects the quality of milk produced, as well as the health of the cattle. In its report based on tests of cattle …
can feral goats actually survive on seawater? This is the crux of a controversy embroiling the ruminant that inhabits the volcanic Barren Island, situated 135 kilometres from Andaman and Nicobar Islands' capital Port Blair. Even as research conducted by the Central Agricultural Research Institute (cari) suggests that the animal consumes …
for the past many years, Japan has come up with frivolous reasons for killing hundreds of whales: the mammals may be eating commercially important quantities of fish, therefore, it is important to identify the contents of their diet. Now, Australian and us scientists have developed a method that will challenge …
The wildebeest population at Serengeti National Park, has not recovered from a drought that killed 25 per cent of the herd five years ago. Scientists, monitoring the population dynamics of the migratory wildebeest in Serengeti, northern Tanzania, say recent data confirm that the population of the animals, had stabilised at …
Animals in industrilized countries both farmers and animals are becoming specialized. Thus dairy farmers keep high milk producing cows. Beef farmers keep specialized beef animals - sheep are specialized in producing meat or wool. Likewise the crops are specialized and crop residues generally discarded or ploughed in. This total market …
