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, …
Adequate feeding is essential to realizing the potential of small ruminants to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers. This study was conducted in two villages in the Ejura-Sekyedumase District of Ghana and was motivated by farmers' non-adoption of modern feed technologies, but more importantly by the need to understand the small …
Small-scale farmers depend largely on their animals and need to feed them well. Technology based innovations have been the mainstream solution to improve the fodder problem. But making farmers find relevant information and networks appears to be as much effective for innovation.
Goats are increasingly seen as a threat to the ecology as they feed on any type of plant species. But goat keeping continues to be an important livelihood activity for the resource poor people. BAIF has promoted a number of initiatives with twin goals of helping small farmers in rearing …
Beetal is the only recognised goat breed in Punjab. Due to indiscriminate slaughter, breeding and movement to other states, this breed was on the verge of extinction from its home tract. The population of Beetal goat in Punjab had declined drastically to less than 10,000. A limited number of breed …
New Delhi: After successfully cloning buffalo, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is all set to embark on a project to clone endangered species, including pashmina goats that are found in Kashmir and are famous for fine quality wool. "We hope to start the project to clone a pashmina goat in …
New Delhi: After successfully cloning buffalo, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is all set to embark on a project to clone endangered species, including pashmina goats that are found in Kashmir and are famous for fine quality wool. "We hope to start the project to clone a pashmina goat in …
Encouraged by the second successful experiment of the cloned buffalo Garima on June 6, the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is set to go ahead with another experiment of cloning Changthangi or pashmina goat in Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh in next two months. The move to clone pashmina …
This study makes an attempt to examine analytically to prove how tank rehabilitation is useful for both direct (farmers) and indirect (landless, poor, women and other vulnerable group) tank users. The tank systems have provided insulation from dependence on rains to the people living in the fragile rainfed areas. The …
The Indian Fox is a widespread animal of arid and semi-arid areas, especially partial to grasslands. It is mostly crepuscular and nocturnal in habit and rarely wanders around during the day.
Russian prosecutors initiated a criminal investigation Tuesday into the use of helicopters to hunt endangered goats by senior officials, a case that has revealed the playtime pleasures of Russia's elite. Seven people died in a helicopter crash in January, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's personal envoy to parliament and a …
Davis, California: University of California scientists say they have found a way to combat intestinal diseases in the developing world through a type of enhanced goat milk. A decade ago, UC Davis researchers discovered a way to transfer a human gene into goats so they would produce a high concentration …
This study aims to estimate the investment and return structure in rearing these goats and production of pashmina so that concrete policies regarding its development could be formulated.
BHADRAK: Protests from animal lovers and social activists notwithstanding, as many as 335 goats were sacrificed at the altar of Rakshakali temple in Bhadrak district last night. Sources said, since time immemorial animals are being sacrificed in Rameswarpur village under Dhamanagar police limits on the
After becoming the first country to clone a buffalo, scientists in India are all set to start work on cloning the famous Pashmina goat. A six-member-team of scientists from Karnal
