Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major global public health problem which has been aggravated by the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in human and animal health as well as the presence of these agents in the environment. AMR in animal pathogens makes disease treatments ineffective, increases the …
BHUBANESWAR: The first layer poultry estate in the country focusing solely on egg production is soon going to take shape at Gobardhan Sula near Baripada in Mayurbhanj district. Land for the around Rs 10-crore project involving the Centre, State and farmers has been demarcated and work for establishment of the …
For several decades, a diverse literature has claimed that urban agriculture has the potential for hunger and poverty alleviation. This article reviews empirical data from equatorial Africa that touch on this assertion, updating the work on the subject published in the mid-1990s. Research, largely from East Africa but also including …
Dibrugarh, Sept. 26: Poultry farming is expected to get a major boost in Dibrugarh through a centrally-sponsored scheme to upgrade the district poultry farm at Khanikar, 5km from town. Four poultry sheds are being repaired to shelter new breed of parent birds. The feed mill house and the godown are …
The Green Revolution impacted livestock-rearing as well as agriculture. Farmers were encouraged to shift from low-input backyard systems to corporatised capital-intensive systems. As a result, write Nitya S Ghotge and Sagari R Ramdas, there was an artificial divide between livestock-rearing and agriculture, leading to the further crumbling of fragile livelihoods …
A study was carried out at the Central Farm of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar during 1992-93 to evaluate the performance of composite fish culture with catla (Catla, rohu, mrigal and grass carp) in a fish-crop-duck-poultry integrated system.
CUTTACK: With poultry identified as a high growth engine for generating employment opportunities and income in rural areas, the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services Department has launched an incentive scheme for farmers by offering full reimbursement of VAT paid on maize and broken rice used as poultry feed. The move …
S Sujatha NAMAKKAL POULTRY farmers are betting on the advantages of the automated environmentally-controlled (EC) sheds as they suffer from manpower shortage, extreme climatic conditions and mounting feed costs. But many of them are worried about the high electricity costs as the sheds require uninterrupted power supply. The cost of …
Komal Amit Gera / Barwala June 08, 2010, 0:56 IST Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in poultry farming in Haryana will soon use poultry litter to generate power for the state power grid. The initiative, by a cluster of over 150 poultry farms in Haryana
Poultry litter produces methane gas and the gas is converted into electricity using a patented technology at a non-descript Tamil Nadu village SBEL Has Capacity To Produce 3.75mw Per Hour S Sujatha NAMAKKAL CHICKEN droppings, which do not get a second look even by most poultry farmers, are used in …
INDIA has refused to remove restrictions on import of pork and poultry products imposed last year as a preventive measure against spread of bird flu despite mounting pressure from the EU and the US at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a recent meeting of the WTO committee on sanitary …
Amritsar: Poultry farmers in Amritsar have taken to emu farming to exploit the multiple returns offered by these birds, in terms of their meat, oil, skin, feathers and even their colourful eggs are in huge demand for ornamental purposes. With the poultry industry being caught in the imbroglio of avian …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, under the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), has developed transgenic chicken for therapeutic purposes by transferring a gene from a different species into chicken. A team, led by senior scientist T.K. Bhattacharya, transferred the enhanced green fluorescent protein …
In a significant breakthrough with the potential for helping bio-pharmaceutical sector in the country, scientists at the Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, have mastered a technology to develop transgenic chickens
Tropical bottom trawling is among the most destructive fishing practices, catching large quantities of bycatch, which are usually discarded. We used questionnaire surveys of trawl fishers to look at changes in catches over the last 30 years (1978
Young farmers in Ratnagiri are successfully preserving the unique diversity of the region by integrating small scale agriculture with livestock production.
