Outstanding Institute Award to NIANP, Bengaluru

Several newer feed resources have been evaluated and found useful for livestock feeding. There is a need to upscale these technologies for wider application. Of late certain local feed resources like azolla, areca sheath, maize kadbi, fruit residues, ayurvedic residues, brewery and residues have been found useful and farmers have started using some of them in the livestock ration. >>>

Ruminants are one of the most successful groups of herbivorous mammals on the planet, with around 200 species represented by approximately 75 million wild and 3.5 billion domesticated individuals worldwide. Humans domesticated these animals in the Neolithic era (Ajmone-Marsan et al., 2010) and have been farming them ever since for the production and consumption of animal protein in the form of meat and milk. >>>

The ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh virtually organized the “Forage Scientists & Seed Producers’ Interface Meeting of Kharif Fodder Crops” today. >>>