Animal Nutrition

Newer feed resources for safe usage in livestock feeding

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. >>>

Dairy Husbandry

Road Map of Rural Development in Uttarakhand The Badri Cow Model

Modern agriculture witnessed the green revolution through the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hybrid seeds of different cereals, pulses etc. in order to have suffi­cient food for our ever-increasing population. We are number one in the world in milk production, which is achieved through importation of exotic animals, crossbreeding with indigenous cows and buffaloes. >>>

Animal Diseases

Trilogy of Interaction: Human, Animal and Environment with respect to COVID 19

Nowadays we come across lot of posts, wallpaper and pictures depicting that Mother Nature is healing itself. Okay, for instance it’s true as people are contained in their habitats giving rise to less pollution and regeneration of flora and fauna as before. But do we really need this kind of healing, how nature will look when seen standing over a pile of dead bodies. >>>

Technical Articles

Animal Welfare: Ethico Animalia

n the wake of the valid argument that dictates the morality being a welfare entity considered for man, whereas the animals being the same beings except not protesting for the rights for themselves, the mankind or some men take the onus necessarily to become a voice for them. >>>

Animal Breeds

Deoni cattle and it’s success stories with farmers

As the name itself indicates Deoni cattle breed belongs to village Deoni, Taluka Deoni, District Latur  in the state of Maharashtra. The breed has developed from a strain descended from the mixture of Gir,  Dangi and local breed. Fore head and ear characters are similar to the Gir breed where as coat color general confirmation and ruggedness belongs to Dangi Cattle breed. >>>