Livestock Census is a regular quinquennial exercise of Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD). The first Livestock Census was conducted in the year 1919 and last census i.e. 20th Livestock Census was conducted in 2019. The 21st Livestock Census exercise has been launched across the country on 25th October, …
There is limited information on the ecological effects of anthropogenic disturbance caused by extractive activities such as grazing and firewood collection. A study was carried out in Sariska Tiger Reserve in India, to investigate the effects of disturbance on forest bird communities.
Bringing down cow flatulence can reduce the presence of greenhouse gases. So believe a group of scientists from New Zealand and Australia, currently working on a multi-million dollar research project. Their project is based on studies that have established that methane, a major greenhouse gas, from cows is responsible for …
The high cost of embryo transfer (et) technology is a major constraint in its wider application in India, say a galaxy of experts working in the field of cattle development. The need of the hour, says Dr. Narayan G. Hegde, president of the Pune-based baif Development Research Foundation, is to …
Faced with a foot-and-mouth outbreak, Kyrgyzstan has imposed a 21-day quarantine on cattle movement in the south of the country. The disease has struck the main cattle-breeding Kara-Suu, Uzgen and Kara-Kulja districts in Osh province and Aksy district of Jalalabad province, say media reports. At least 500 cases of the …
Livestock production is the primary source of livelihood and income in most of the high steppe and alpine regions of the Indian Trans-Himalaya. In some areas, especially those established or proposed for biodiversity conservation, recent increases in populations of domestic livestock, primarily sheep and goats, have raised concern about domestic …
if you are living with lizards in your house, don't crib. Once in a while, one of them might drop on your table, but most of the time they are doing you a favour: free pest control. Beyond common sense, experts say there is a link between biological diversity and …
The forest commission submitted its report to the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef), recently. But many observers had anticipated the document's tenor well before the report was submitted, after the commission sent a note to the prime minister's office in March contending that the proposed forests rights bill …
Navapur has 52 poultry farms with a total fowl population of approximately 1,400,000 (almost 1,100,000 chicken are provided by Venkateshwara Hatcheries) and a daily turnover of Rs 12-13 lakh. Almost its entire poultry trade is in eggs (layer chicken) and not broilers. Once a layer stops laying egg and grows …
The French farm ministry recently found abnormally high levels of cadmium in animal feed. The ministry said the cadmium, which causes serious liver and kidney damage, has been sourced to a 120-tonne batch of imports of the feed ingredient zinc sulphate from China. A company based in France's Brittany province …
Smallholder agriculture has made an increasing use of subsidized mechanization and energy inputs to reduce short-term risks in semi-arid conditions in north west India. However, geographic patterns of production and scale of mechanization are straining resources and increasing the risk of serious degradation of natural resources. In this paper, the …
In the global livestock sub-sector, a revolution is taking place that has profound implications for poor producers, people's health and the environment. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the demand for food derived from animal origin
Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) is one of the widely distributed large mammals in India. At the same time, the sloth bear has suffered as much as other large mammals from human impacts on forested areas. The North Bilaspur Forest Division, Chhattisgarh, which an un-protected area, harbours a large number of …
On 17 May 2005, the Government of Gujarat issued a resolution (GR) to bring wastelands under cultivation inviting big corporate houses and rich farmers – a beginning of corporate farming in a big way in the state. The GR has the provision of giving wastelands up to 2000 acres for …
