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Operationalizing the pro-poor potential of livestock: Issues and strategies

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Title Operationalizing the pro-poor potential of livestock: Issues and strategies
 
Creator BIRTHAL, P S
TANEJA, V K
 
Subject Livestock; Poverty; Growth strategies
 
Description Livestock comprise an important source of income for the poor. The sector contributes about one-fourth to the agricultural gross domestic product and has been growing faster than the agricultural sector as a whole. Livestock resources are more equally distributed than land, and are increasingly becoming concentrated among small landholders. These trends imply that growth in livestock sector has a larger potential for poverty reduction. The fast-growing demand for animal food products is an opportunity to harness this pro-poor potential. The productivity of livestock, however, is low, and growth therein has decelerated in recent years. Reversing this would require a technological breakthrough in genetic enhancement, animal health, and feed and nutrition and strengthening of livestock infrastructure, institutions and service delivery system.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2012-05-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/17669
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 82, No 5 (2012)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/17669/8513
 
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