Download or read book Smallholder Dairy in Mixed Farming Systems of the Hindu Kush Himalayas Issues and Prospects for Development written by Mohammad A Jabbar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smallholder Dairy in Mixed Farming Systems of the Hindu Kush Himalayas written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles with reference to case studies done in Bhutan, India and Nepal jointly by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and International Livestock Research Institute.
Download or read book Livestock in Mixed Farming Systems of the Hindu Kush Himalayas written by Pradeep Man Tulachan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dairy Farming in Mountain Areas written by Vir Singh and published by Daya Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dairy Farming is one of the key economic activities livestock-dependent farming communities in the mountain areas depend upon. Dairy farming involves natural resource base-forests/rangelands, croplands, livestock breeding-feeding, breeding, health management, marketing and consumption of the products. This book presents wonderful synthesis of the smallholders resource management in the mountains. Smallholders constitute the majority of the mountain communities. Their strategies of resource management this book portrays provide the interesting matter the institutions might like to know about before they being with the interventions into dairy farming. Mountain areas are altogether distinguishable from those of the mainstream plain areas. And so are their production systems. Peri-urban areas in the region constitute the high-pressure areas. Dairy farming in these areas is essentially market-oriented. The book especially characterizes the smallholder dairy farms in the vicinity of urban milk consuming centres. These scenarios are different from those in the remote areas. Smallholder dairy farming has enormous potential. It can contribute to family income, generate gainful employment especially for women, elevate living standards of the producers, fight malnutrition especially amongst children and enhance processes of sustainable agriculture. Crop-livestock-forest/rangeland integrity is a key factor to the sustainability of mountain livelihoods. Augmentation of dairy farming systems leads to the enhanced performance of the overall production system. The book finally discusses perspective based approaches to operationalise sustainability in the mountains. The book, in essence, is a landmark publication in the area of sustainable mountain development. India is the leading milk producer in the world today, which is largely thanks to the smallholders contributions. Dairy development could be one of the key areas to help the country to occupy centre stage in the on-going rapid globalisation processes. This book is an humble attempt to further advance towards this direction. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Dairy Development in the Plants: A Review, Livestock in the mixed farming systems, Development interventions through plans, Some case studies, Summary; Chapter 3: Dairy Development Indicators, Mountain specificities, Dairy indicators, Types of dairy farms, Management, Dairy species, Dairy breeds, Marketable products, Use of inputs, Scale of production, Location/site, Production traits/individual performance indicators, Summary; Chapter 4: Livestock Population, Composition and Dynamics, Population, livestock in diverse agroecological zones, Livestock in a village, Livestock holding, Summary; Chapter 5: Feeds and Feeding Management, Why uncultivated fodder? Response to fragility, Biodiversity, Ecological niche, Higher productivity, Comparative nutritive value, Year-round fodder supplies, Resilience, Compatibility, Topographic suitability, Energy efficiency, Multiple benefits, Man-animal symbiosis, Environmental safety, Phenology of fodder plants, Contributions of different resources, Nutritive value, Feeding management, Summary; Chapter 6: Dairy Breeds and Breeding Management, Breeds in Indian Central Himalayas, Ponwar, Jwalapuri, Crossbreds, Hill breeds, Buffalo breeds, The conventional breeding management, Lessons learned, Some arguments for and against, Alternate husbandry practices, Summary; Chapter 7: Health Management, Main diseases, Effect of diseases, Health services and policies, The Ethno-vet system, Summary; Chapter 8: Milk Production, Marketing and Consumption Pattern, Trends in milk production, Seasonal variation, Milk marketing system, State dairy cooperative federations, Milk marketing channels, Producer-consumer channel, Producer-trader-consumer channel, Producer-cooperative-consumer channel, Milk marketing scenarios, Consumption pattern of dairy products, Consumption pattern in urban areas, Consumption pattern in rural areas, Summary; Chapter 9: Constraints to Dairy Farming in the HKH Region, Physical constraints, Biological constraints, Management-related constraints, Socioeconomic and institutional constraints, Summary; Chapter 10: Livestock in High Pressure Peri-urban Areas: A Case of the Central Himalayas, The setting and the methodology, Marketing of milk, Marketed surplus of milk, Sample analysis, Results and discussion, Demographic features, Landholding size, Livestock population and composition, Livestock holding, Livestock breeds, Milk production of peri-urban dairy farms; Per capita milk availability, Marketing of milk, Marketable surplus of milk, Determinants of marketable surplus of milk, Flow of milk through different marketing channels, Consumption pattern of dairy products, Fodder calendar, Feeds and their quality, Gender contribution to dairy production, Summary; Chapter 11: Potentials of Smallholder Dairy Farming and Approaches to Sustainability, Livestock and natural resource base, Existing potentialities, Natural resource management, Afforestation, Protection, Increasing biodiversity, Deferred-cum-rotational grazing, Practicising stall-feeding, Alternate energy sources, Efficient resource utilisation, Improved composting techniques, Livestock resource base, Technological options, Institutional intervention, Summary.
Download or read book Nutritional Quality Management of Forages in the Himalayan Region written by Rajan Katoch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses up-to-date and detailed information about the nutritional quality of forage in the biodiversity-rich Himalayan region and their potential in livestock feeding. • Provides a comprehensive discussion on the prospects of Himalayan forages. • Collates findings and data based on more than two decades of research on nutritional quality of different temperate grasses, fodder trees, legumes and non-conventional forage resources. • Includes information on different forage resources, nutritional quality of forages, niche based nutritive forage species, varietal improvement of different species for nutritionally rich forages, non-conventional forages and modern biotechnological intervention for quality improvement of forages. • Offers a valuable resource of information on forages for researchers and policymakers • Include information oriented toward livestock feeding, influencing their health, production and productivity affecting economic status of farmers. • Presents exhaustive information on forage species along with pictorial presentations. The target audience will be researchers and scientists in public and private institutions (e.g. government, academia, dairy industry), policy planners, animal nutritionists and students. The monograph is relevant for the readers interested in understanding forage quality for livestock feeding and suggest models for quality improvement of forages worldwide, in similar topographies. It is also relevant to the researchers studying forage improvement and biofortification for nutritional enhancement for improving livestock health and productivity
Download or read book Profile of a Fragile Marginal Land written by Ordway Starnes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Agriculture in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region written by and published by Icmod. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at International Symposium on Mountain Agriculture in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas.
Download or read book ICIMOD Newsletter for Sustainable Development in the Hindu Kush Himalayas written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ILRI Annual Report 2002 written by International Livestock Research Institute and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by International Livestock Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environment and Development written by Jagbir Singh and published by I. K. International Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 100 years, mankind has managed to destroy much of what it took nature millions of years to create. At no point in history has so much damage been done to our natural heritage in such a short amount of time. If something needed to be done to stop this crime against our future generations then now is the time to act, as with every passing day we are speeding towards a self-inflicted doomsday. What is killing our ecology and environment is generally known. What we need are solutions and ways of implementing them. This International Conference on Environment and Development: Challenges and Opportunities, held on March 4-6, 2005 at the University of Delhi, India, is one such step. The conference presented the most up-to-date ideas on solving problems, both ecological and environmental, which mankind has brought upon itself.
Download or read book Studies in Nepali History and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Strategic Planning Process 1999 written by and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mixed Crop livestock Farming written by Hans Schiere and published by Fao. This book was released on 2001 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request and with the support of the Japasese Government, FAO has compiled experiences of livestock keeping from different parts of the world, categorized by production systems, to make it easier for interested people to select ideas for their own conditions. This document presents a sample of technologies for livestock keeping in rural mixed crop-livestock farming systems, with emphasis on describing the livestock production systems in the traditional sector and identifying constraints. Suggestions for improving production in the livestock sector are given throughout the publication and a literature list is included for further reference.
Download or read book Community Empowerment in Livestock Resource Planning written by Pradeep Man Tulachan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Nepal.