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Analysis of existing dairy farming in Goa

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Title Analysis of existing dairy farming in Goa
 
Creator NAIK, P K
DHURI, R B
SWAIN, B K
KARUNAKARAN, M
CHAKURKAR, E B
SINGH, N P
 
Subject Animals, Dairy, Farmers, Feed, Livestock, Nutritive, Practices
 
Description A study was envisaged to highlight the existing dairy farming practices and to analyze the constraints of the dairyfarming in Goa. A total of 66 farmers were selected randomly from different talukas of Goa, which covered around1,170 dairy animals. Only 8% farmers had dairying as the primary occupation and majority (74%) of the farmers hadagriculture or horticulture as the primary occupation. Based on the number of milch animals 51.5, 27.3, 16.7 and 4.5,per cent farmers were marginal, small, medium and large, respectively. The wet average and herd average were 7.62 kg/ day and 5.79 kg/day. Among the ingredients of the home-made concentrate feeds, ground maize and cotton seed cake were most preferred. Majority of the dairy farmers were using naturally grown karad grasses only during rainy season. Among the un-conventional feeds, spent brewers’ grains were mostly used. It can be concluded that there is need of awareness programmes on scientific feeding practices and interventions are needed in the traditional feeding practices of the dairy animals to make the dairy farming a more profitable venture.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2013-03-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/28134
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 83, No 3 (2013)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/28134/12789
 
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