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Managemet Strategies for Conservation of Indigenous Poultry by Molecular Approach

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Title Managemet Strategies for Conservation of Indigenous Poultry by Molecular Approach
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Creator Prabhat Kumar Pankaj, R.K. Mahapatra, R. Pourouchottamane and Vikas Mahajan
 
Subject Livestock, Health, Production
 
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Poultry plays an important role in rural livelihood security as well
as is an integral part of human life in many ways by providing animal
protein as meat and eggs. In drylands, especially Andhra Pradesh
and Tamil Nadu, they has social and ethical value through hobby,
sporting, etc. There is an excellent advancement in poultry production
through extensive usage of population genetics principles and
intensive selection and development of specialized populations of
poultry. For continued genetic progress, it is very important to conserve
the genetic reservoir of existing poultry populations which can respond
to future research and production needs in a sustainable way. Like
other species, poultry biodiversity is also declining at an alarming level
globally and we may need to review the urgency of conserving poultry
biodiversity because avian species are unique and the topic becomes
more important in the era of climate change.
Nearly 36% of meat production in India is contributed by poultry
and 12.82% of total egg production is from Desi Fowls (BAHS, 2016).
The largest producer of egg is Tamil Nadu which produces 19.4% of
the total egg production in the country followed by Andhra Pradesh
that produces 18.89% of the egg production. Telangana is the third
largest egg producer state in the country which produces 13.5% of
the total egg production in the country (BAHS, 2016).
Poultry is reared by marginal and small farmers due to its low
feed, water and other production input requirements and thus
contributes significantly to the rural livelihoods and economy.
However, indigenous breeds are very important in the period of climate
change where temperature, humidity, rainfall and climatic extreme
events are uncertain and more frequent. Indigenous breeds of India
are more hardy, agile to escape from predators, adapted to varied
agro-ecosystem, greater capacity to be reared on low grade feed
materials, hard egg shell and having good nutritive valued meat. To
achieve the fast growth in poultry sector with higher FCR, better
genomic research in this area is need of the hour. To meet the growing
demands of the population and to improve the per capita consumption
among the rural/tribal people, indigenous poultry farming in rural/
tribal areas is the best alternative. Indigenous chickens are of great
importance to smallholder farmers in India and it requires the challenge
towards improving productivity for increasing financial and food
security. Thus, current concept deals with management strategies for
conservation of indigenous poultry by molecular approach in detail.
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Date 2019-12-02T11:25:51Z
2019-12-02T11:25:51Z
2018-07-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier Not Available
978-93-86200-00-0
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/26392
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Satish Serial Publishing House