Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of In Re: Unchecked cattle sheds on the opposite side of police outpost in Bidhannagar, dispute regarding its demolition Vs Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Environment, Government of West Bengal & Others dated 19/03/2024. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation …
The God Aihn rules over Amunawdr, the realm of the dead. He is a dairyman and created the Todas and their buffaloes. To qualify for entry into the afterworld, the Todas of the Nilgiris must follow all prescribed ceremonies. This belief is the pivot of Toda culture. An ancient tribal …
Vaccines and tight controls on livestock movement would be used by Zimbabwe to combat an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease. "Instead of slaughtering the cattle, we will set up a taskforce consisting of government and industry officials. The taskforce would ensure that there is no movement of cattle, and vaccines …
Bharatiya Cattle Resource Developmet Foundation ( bcrdf ), a non-governmental organisation has developed an ecofriendly bullock driven tractor ( bdt ) for improvised tilling. The improved yoke design has increased the contact area of yoke with bullocks
following an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth (fmd) disease and the authorities' incapability to handle the situation, the Indian meat exports have declined dramatically
In a bid to protect its beef exportsthe Argentine government concealed an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease for monthsaccording to media reports. This disclosure was followed by an immediate ban of Argentine beef by the usthe European Union and other countries. The country's agriculture minister and the head of the …
an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the uk has sparked off a scare across the world, prompting several governments to impose bans on British livestock and animal products in an effort to contain its spread. The first 27 cases were reported on February 19, 2001, at the Cheale Meats, …
gaur, an endangered ox-like animal, native to Southeast Asia and India, was successfully cloned, making it the first endangered species to be cloned. But the cloned animal, named Noah, succumbed to clostridial enteritis, a bacterial infection that is almost universally fatal to infected newborn animals. Gaur is brown or black …
the World Health Organisation (who) has raised concerns about the large-scale spread of the mad cow disease. "Our concern is that there was sufficient international trade in infected meat, bone meal and live cattle and consequently there has already been a worldwide exposure,' said Maura Ricketts of who 's animal …
the World's largest animal rights organisation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta), has warned that it would launch "a potentially devastating campaign against Indian tourism' if satisfactory efforts were not made by the Indian officials to end cruelty towards cows. peta has raised concerns about illegal transportation of …
Scientists have developed a new way of tackling global warming by feeding cattle a daily dose of bacteria to stop them belching out methane as they graze. Cows, and to a lesser extent sheep, are responsible for nearly a quarter of the global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Contrary …
It is a sabbatical for cattle. A few days after the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan, just before the harvest of the rabi crop, hal chhatt is observed. Bullocks are rested completely, cows are not milked, and nobody eats anything grown on tilled land for one day. For centuries, Indians …
The gathering is a strange mix of cultures, a capsular representation of India's cultural and biological diversity. It is January 26, 2000, and the National Livestock and Poultry Show is underway on the grounds outside New Delhi's Pragati Maidan. It bears the mark of a typical government event, reminding the …
sixty million households or some 320 million Indians live below the so-called poverty line. In Andhra Pradesh ( ap ) alone, 16 per cent or one in every six persons come from a family unable to afford two square meals a day. For these people, the much-maligned goat is a …
The livestock research centre at Oshimizumachi in Japan celebrated the birthday of two cloned female heifers. Noto and Kaga, the two heifers, now weigh more than 200 kg. A year ago, with their premature birth, the world witnessed for the first time two cloned offsprings from the somatic cells of …
more than a hundred cows have died in a span of four months in Rajasthan's Sar region, 23 km from Jodhpur. Though authorities have refused to give any reason for the deaths, it is said that the cows died after drinking contaminated water. According to the collector of Jodhpur, V …
cloning continues to be in news. Now, two calves have been cloned from cells present in cow's milk in northern Japan recently. The clones at the Snow Brand dairy company's research centre in Japan's northern most main island of Hokkaido were the first-ever using colostrum
the authorities in Gujarat have seized 19.2 lakh banned oxytocin injections which are illegally sold to the cattle owners to raise milk production. According to the state health minister, Ashok Bhatt, the seizure was made in a series of raids in Patan, Mehsana and Ahmedabad towns of the state. It …
SCENE I: 5 am in the morning, a household in any part of India. The milkman rings the doorbell. The sleepy-eyed customer takes the daily quota of the white fluid and prepares for the day ahead. There are more than 900 million people in the country. The demand for milk …
Simply put, grasslands are for grazing. With India's economy dependent heavily on agriculture, and farmers, in turn, relying significantly on cattle rearing, grasslands are very crucial to the health of India's rural economy. About 90 per cent of the cattle population in the country subsists on natural grasslands or pastures. …
Scientists complain that overgrazing does not give the grasslands a chance to recover. Consequently, perennial grasses are replaced by seasonal varieties that have a low nutritional value. "Overgrazed rangelands also get infested by a variety of exotic weeds, many of which have spread at a really alarming rate over the …
