Livestock Feeding Strategies for Dry Regions 1st Edition

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During the Xth plan, a growth rate of 4 percent or more is being targeted as a national policy in agriculture. To achieve this, livestock production is being focused as a source of livelihood and income generation for farmers. The arid and semi-arid regions constituting about 40% area of the country, are comparatively less developed and therefore kept as key response area. Since feeding livestock cost more than 60 per cent, and there exists huge deficit of forage and feed supply, the present book is very timely and important for these areas. The chapters on Feed and Forage Resources their nutritive value and utilization, Grassland development, Top Feeds, Livestock Biodiversity, Natural Resources, Conservation, Feed Quality and IPR issues under WTO have been covered. The book will thus serve as a repository of information and will be very useful for researchers, livestock owners, students and planners for dry regions.

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s Dr. P S Pathak born on 8th January 1944, completed higher education and Ph.D from BHU, Varanasi in 1967. He started his career as a lecturer and has 38 years of research experience in the field of Agroforestry, Agrosilivipastroal systems, Silvipastoral systems, Growth and production modeling of trees, Wasteland reclamation and development, Range management, etc. He served as Assistant Director General (Agroforestry), ICAR, New Delhi from 1996-2000. Dr. Pathak coordinated the TPN-2 network project on agroforestry and soil conservation of CCD of the United Nationa. He was associated with the development fo an IDRC, Canada supported project proposal on Silivipastoral Systems of Production for Development of Degraded lands. He is life member of many scientific societies and fellow of National Institute of Ecology and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Pathak visited 16 countries for attending international meetings, workshops and field trips. He is recipient of ICAR Team Resarch Award for outstanding research in the area of agricultural sciences (Natural Resource Management ) in the year 2002. He has 300 research publications including 18 edited books and 2 authored books to his credit. Currently, as Director of Indian Grassland & Fodder Research Institute (IGFRI), Jhansi. he is guiding and managing research in the area of forage production and its utilization in the country since July 2000. Dr. S S Knudu completed his Masters and Ph.D. from NDRI, Karnal and served as scientist at CSWRI, Avikanagar and NDRI, Karnal, is currently Principal Scientist and Head, Plant Animal Relationship Division at IGFRI, Jhansi (U.P.) and has over 28 years of experience in the field of Animal Nutrition research. He contributed significantly in initiating and shaping the work on feed technology, developing the feed block technology and feed microscopy for quality assurance. Dr. Kundu has undergone advanced training in the field of ruminant nutrition at the Netherlands and U.K. He is pioneer worker in the field of carbohydrate, protein fractionations of animal feeds and conservation of Bhadawari buffaloes, Jalauni sheep and Bundelkhandi goats in the country. In addition to four books on ???Feeding Farm Animals, Buffalo Production Under Different Climatic Regions, Animal Feed Technology, Roughage Processing Technology, and a bulletin on Complete Feed Block???, he has more than 200 research publications in Journals of National and Interantional repute. He has guided a number of postgraduate and Ph.D. students. He is Vice President [Animal Nutrition Society of India], Joint Secretary, Indian Society of Buffalo Development, Councellor of RMSI and also life member of eight scientific societies.

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Forage production and feeding during scarcity Forage resource management in arid and semi arid regions Managing drought stress for augmenting forage productivity in arid western rajasthan Fodder/Grasses under horticultrue planataitons in arid and semi-arid regions of India Arid and semi arid regions of the country Livestock raising in arid and semi-arid zones: A perspective Agroforestry for forage production Diversity of domesticated herbivores Modelling silvipastoral systems Halophytic forages for salty soils in deserts Densification of roughages Grases as ecological imperatives for dry regions of India Forage crops and cropping systems of arid and semi-arid regions Environmental stress on livestock in arid and semi arid regions Micronutrient status of livestock feeds of arid regions Mineral bioavailability from forages Multipurpose trees as forage resources Feed and forage resources for camel Lean period forages in arid and semi-arid zones of India Livestock feeding in rajasthan Dryland forage seed resource Problems and prospects of forage production and utilization in rajasthan domestic animal diversity dry regions Economics of small ruminant production in dry regions Technologies for mitigating stresses: Alternative land uses in semi-arid regions Camel, their relevence in developing farming systems in arid regions of India Technological innovations for augmenting forage resources for dry regions Grasses of banni pastureland of kutch and its management Livestock vis-a-vis fodder resources in the state ofrajasthan Densification of complete feed Intellectual property right (IPR) issues in livestock farming Top feed resources in arid region of India Water and soil conservation for augmenting forage supply in ravines and other grasslands