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Assessment of feed and fodder availability and requirement in Andhra Pradesh

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Title Assessment of feed and fodder availability and requirement in Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Chandhini, K
Raju, S S
Vani, N
Lavanya Kumari, P
 
Subject Agriculture
 
Description The present study aimed to estimate the feed and fodder demand for the existing livestock population and supply in Andhra
Pradesh. For the study the secondary data was collected from the different sources. The livestock population was converted into
Ruminant Livestock Units (RLU) based on the species, age and sex. Ruminant Livestock Units (RLU) were considered to have
a body weight of 350 kg and a dry matter intake of 2 per cent of their body weight. The total RLU in the state is 9.24 million,
requiring 23.61 million tonnes of feed and fodder on dry matter basis. Availability of dry fodder and concentrates were estimated
using appropriate conversion ratios to different crop production while green fodder was estimated by applying per hectare yield
to different fodder sources The total annual availability of feed and fodder in the state was estimated to be 33.13 million tonnes
against the requirement of 23.61 million tonnes and thereby excess of around 40.35 per cent per annum. The availability of feed
and fodder was excess in 9 districts except for the Visakhapatnam, Prakasam, Kadapa and Anantapuram districts of the state.
Average dry matter availability in the state was 9.82 kg/RLU/day against the requirement (7 kg). Creation of fodder banks and
transport fodder to the deficit areas of the country are the policies to be developed and need priority attention to solve the problem
of fodder in deficit areas.
 
Publisher Society of Agricultural Scientists S.V Agricultural College, Tirupati.
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16432/1/Andhra%20Pradesh%20Journal%20of%20Agricultural%20Sciences_2022_S%20S%20Raju.pdf
Chandhini, K and Raju, S S and Vani, N and Lavanya Kumari, P (2022) Assessment of feed and fodder availability and requirement in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 8 (2). pp. 110-116.