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Title: | SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS FOR SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION |
Other Titles: | SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS FOR SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION |
Authors: | ICAR_CRIDA |
ICAR Data Use Licennce: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdf |
Author's Affiliated institute: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Published/ Complete Date: | 2008 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | SILVOPASTORAL, SYSTEMS, RUMINANT PRODUCTION |
Publisher: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Citation: | Not Available |
Series/Report no.: | Not Available; |
Abstract/Description: | Land, a non-renewable resource, is central to all primary production systems. An everincreasing population places enormous demands on land resources. This is particularly acute in India, which has only 2.4 per cent of the world's geographical area but supports over 16 per cent of the world's population. It has 0.5 per cent of the world's grazing area but has over 18 (885 million livestock of which 180.2 million are small ruminants) per cent of livestock population. Average size of the land holding is 0.15 ha of which most of them (59%) are marginal farmers who depend wholly or partially on small ruminant farming and only 4.4% of the available land is used for fodder production. Small ruminant (sheep and goat) farming heavily depends on traditional feeding methods including most common grazing on waste and community lands. Further, sustained and high population growth rates, combined with limited and rapidly diminishing land holds and land for food grains and cash crops led to shortage of feed and fodder to small ruminants, which resulted in over grazing and degradation of the available land. These pressures on land are compounded by the fact that over 69 per cent of our geographical area falls within dry zone as per the Thornthwaite classification. The wastelands in the country were placed at 63.85 mha (NRSA). They are in urgent need of attention and have to be accorded the highest priority for best utilization of these wastelands through proven silvopastoral systems to get optimum production from sheep and goat through increasing highly nutrious top fodder and understorey forage production. The term ‘silvo’ means ‘tree’ and ‘pasture’ means ‘grasses’ or ‘grass + legume’ mixtures. Silvopastoral systems are defined as growing of ideal combination of grasses, legumes and trees for producing highly nutritious top fodder and forage, fuel wood, timber and optimising land productivity, conserving plants, soil and nutrients etc. on sustainable basis on the same unit of land. This involves replantation, substitution or intervention in the existing vegetation by desirable species (Deb Roy and Pathak 1974). In these land use systems, trees or shrubs are combined with small ruminants and pasture production and it has been traditionally practised in India especially under village conditions. |
Description: | Not Available |
ISSN: | Not Available |
Type(s) of content: | Technical Report |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
Name of Journal: | Not Available |
Volume No.: | Not Available |
Page Number: | Not Available |
Name of the Division/Regional Station: | Not Available |
Source, DOI or any other URL: | Not Available |
URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33191 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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