Animal Husbandry

Ruminal methane intervention through metagenomics approaches

May 1, 2020 Dr. Sonam Dixit

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. >>>

Animal Husbandry

An Agricultural Innovation to Prevent Food Crisis in India: Integrated Livestock Farming

May 1, 2020 Dr. Anushri Pandey

Today India is facing a huge financial crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic, and changing climatic conditions are unfavorable for fulfilling the demand of increasing population hence leading to further food crisis. Now, it is a time to achieve food security by agricultural innovations along with the environmental sustainability. Integrated Livestock Farming (ILF) system is a unique way of vertical expansion in space and time to improve the economic conditions of poor Indian farmers and to maintain ecosystem and expand biodiversity globally. >>>

Animal Diseases

Brucellosis- World leading Neglected Zoonotic disease

May 1, 2020 Dr. Losa Rose

Brucellosis is an important bacterial disease with worldwide distribution and consistently ranked among the most economically important zoonosis globally. Particularly in low and middle-income countries it is more prevalent as the misconceptions about Brucella’s true incidence often arise from underreporting and insufficient monitoring data, a lack of financial resources and capacity. >>>

Animal Diseases

Early diagnosis of Subclinical mastitis (SCM) in HF cows in an organized farm

May 1, 2020 Dr. Ramesh M. Gaddi

Subclinical mastitis (SCM) is subtle and more difficult to detect as the affected cow appears healthy, the udder does not show any signs of inflammation and the milk appears normal. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) are the leading oganisms to cause  infection of other cows (Bramley et al., 1996 and Riffon et al.,  2001). >>>

Animal Diseases

National Animal Disease Emergency- Control and Management

May 1, 2020 Dr. Gagan Bajaj

Animal disease emergencies are significant public health component which might occur in a major outbreak of a zoonotic diseases. For these emergencies well developed framework should be developed for implementing disease control and eradication programmes and for sharing responsibilities among those departments and agencies without involvement of which this plan cannot be completed. >>>

Poultry Farming

Eggs: Myths vs. Facts

May 1, 2020 Dr. Vaishali Gupta

Eggs; the little oval white/brown structures laid by poultry have always been on the receiving end of misconceptions in Indian society. As a matter of fact, ‘Pandora’s box’ of myths associated with Fisher’s private thing has spread as fast as the stupendous development of poultry industry in India. >>>

Animal Diseases

Colic in horses

May 1, 2020 Dr. Jasleen Kaur

It is most frequently encountered problem in equines and multifactorial in origin. Clinically, disease is characterized by varying degree of signs of abdominal pain, and dehydration-electrolyte balance. On the basis of different factors involved in its causation colic can be classified into four types >>>