Introduction Backyard or homestead poultry farming is common among rural and landless families in India and is a lucrative source of supplementary income. It involves low investment and yields high economic returns, and can be easily managed by women, children and the elderly. Meat and eggs from such birds are inexpensive and rich source of protein and energy for poor households. Backyard poultry farming is characterized by an indigenous night shelter system, scavenging, natural hatching of … Continue Reading →
Plant Toxicity and its Treatment in Ruminants
Abrus precatorius (Rati/Gunj/Rosary beans) Toxic Principle: Abrin→ Inactivates Protein synthesis. Clinical signs: GI dysfunction, salivation, colic, bloody diarrhea, muscular twitching. Nervous signs in later stages followed by death within 1-10 days. PM: Splotchy Hemorrhage & Ulceration Treatment: Antidote – Anti abrin serum; emesis followed by activated charcoal; saline purgatives (MgSO4); Tannic Acid Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken Fern) Present in hilly areas, sheep and … Continue Reading →
Treatment of common diseases of sheep and goat
Bacterial Diseases Enterotoxemia (pulpy kidney disease) Signs: Circling, staggering, falling, recumbency, convulsions, sudden death PM lesion: Soft pulpy kidneys Treatment: Not effective but oral and parentral antibiotics may be tried Control: Vaccination; generally annually, 1 month prior to breeding/lambing. Lamb at 10 days of age if both parents aren’t vaccinated or else after 4 months of age. Anthrax Signs: Sudden body temperature rise, dyspnoea, bleeding from natural … Continue Reading →
Easy steps for clean milk production at dairy farms
What is clean milk? Clean milk is generally defined as milk drawn from the udder of healthy animals, which is collected in clean dry milking pails and free from extraneous matters like dust, dirt, flies, hay and free from pathogenic bacteria. Clean milk has a normal composition, possesses a natural milk flavor with low bacterial count and is safe for human consumption. Clean milk has longer shelf life and keeping quality, transported to longer distance, high commercial value and helps to … Continue Reading →
Eliminating Dog Mediated Rabies in India by 2030
Rabies is endemic in India!! Australia, Singapore, Bahrain, Japan and England are the five country which are free from Rabies. Japan is the first Asian country that eradicated rabies from its soil, so what about India? Will India be among those five countries which are rabies free? The answer is yes. Yes, India will also be free from rabies only if WHO, FAO and World Animal Health Organization set the goal to eradicate or eliminate rabies. Among the 60,000 fatalities worldwide due … Continue Reading →
Fighting climate change through food justice
“We should be good guests on earth, neither too demanding nor disturbing its delicate balance. We should allow it to renew itself for those who are to follow.” - Indira Gandhi, Former Prime Minister, 1983. What is climate change? Climate change is a global threat presently faced by mankind. Global climate change involves relatively abrupt change in weather patterns around the world including rising temperature, irregular and unpredictable wind and rainfall. Though natural change in climate … Continue Reading →
Principles of Organic Poultry Farming
Organic farming is a system of farming which aims to promote animal health and environmental sustainability through holistic management for positive health based on a biologically active soil. To be certified as organic egg, the hen should have been fed with organic feed, which is produced without synthetic pesticides, drugs, antibiotics or Genetically Modified Crops Hens used to produce organic eggs should not be fed rations containing meat by-products, such as meat and bone meal … Continue Reading →
All About Rumen Microbiology
Grazing animals like cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat have four-chambered stomach called as rumen. It contains a complex bionetwork, where all types of microbes including bacteria, fungi, bacteriophages, archaea and protozoa exist in close proximity. Some of these microbes interact with each other in a synergistic relationship to extract energy by breaking lignocellulosic bond with help of lignocellulolytic enzymes like cellulose to support digestion of the host. This yields volatile fatty acids … Continue Reading →
सिंथेटिक दूध (नकली दूध) : मानव स्वास्थ्य के लिए एक चुनौती
भारत लगभग 165 मिलियन टन दूध का वार्षिक उत्पादन कर विश्व में शीर्ष दूध उत्पादक देश है। लेकिन देश में सिंथेटिक दूध के पकडे आने की घटनाये भारत की इस उपलब्धि को बेकार बना देती है । तरल दूध शिशुओं तथा वृद्धो के लिए एक अनिवार्य पोषण आहार है । प्राकृतिक दूध के स्थान पर रासायनिक रूप से संश्लेषित दूधिया तरल (सिंथेटिक दूध) गंभीर चिंता का विषय है, डेयरी उद्योग विभिन्न प्रकार से दूध का परीक्षण करता है,जैसे कि दूध में वसा तथा दूध के अन्य घटक जैसे प्रोटीन, लाक्टोस आदि का निर्धारण करना पर ये परीक्षण किसी भी … Continue Reading →
कीटनाशकों का अंधाधुंध प्रयोग मानव स्वास्थ्य के लिए एक चुनौती
कीटनाशक, किसानो के लिए कीट और रोगों के खिलाफ लड़ाई में अतिआवश्यक हैं। विश्व में लगभग 45% फसल कीट और रोगों द्वारा नष्ट हो जाती है। अतः विश्व में भोजन की मांग को पूरा करने के लिए यह आवश्यक है, कि फसलों के विकास, भंडारण और परिवहन के दौरान रक्षा के लिए कीटनाशकों का उपयोग किया जाये । लेकिन कीटनाशकों के अंधाधुंध और विवेकहीन उपयोग से इन तत्वो के अवशेष खाद्य श्रृंखला तथा पर्यावरण में समाहित हो रहे हैं, जोकि पूरे पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र के व्यापक संदूषण के लिए जिम्मेदार है। कीटनाशक तथा इसके अवशेष वसा में … Continue Reading →
