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Silage for Climate Resilient Small Ruminant Production

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Title Silage for Climate Resilient Small Ruminant Production
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Creator Artabandhu Sahoo
 
Subject silage, small ruminant, feed scarcity, nutrition, productivity
 
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Climate change impact on livestock, especially due to impact on agriculture and ensuing shortage of feed resources and its quality, will have a profound effect on growth,
milk production, reproduction, metabolic activity and disease occurrence. Small ruminant feeding and nutrition research should therefore be tailored in line with climate
resilient agriculture and farming systems. Seasonal feed scarcity is a concurrent problem that farmers usually face besides natural calamities like drought, flood, cyclone,
earthquake, etc., and it has a signifcant impact on small ruminant productivity. Silage
making is an effective and common method of forage preservation and also a form of
treatment to occasionally retrieve the underutilized pastures for beter acceptability,
degradability and utilization. Demand for conventional crop (principally maize) outpaces its production, which stresses upon to fnd suitable, or even beter, alternatives
for silage making. This chapter deals with silage making from legumes, mixed forages,
alternate forages and by-products from fruits and vegetable sector, TMR silage, phytochemicals role in silage making and livestock production, use of inoculants/additives
in silages, the concept of therapeutic silage, novel microbial approaches to solving the
problem of silage aerobic deterioration during the feed-out phase, animal and human
health concern of deteriorated silages and production of designer animal produce from
innovative silages.
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Date 2020-09-09T08:32:21Z
2020-09-09T08:32:21Z
2018-01-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/41084
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Intechopen