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Demographic changes in small ruminant population in India: Some inferences from different livestock regions

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Title Demographic changes in small ruminant population in India: Some inferences from different livestock regions
 
Creator DIXIT, A K
REDDY, B S
MANOHAR, N S
 
Subject Common property resources; Demography; Small ruminant
 
Description There is significant growth in population of small ruminants in India during the last three decades. Various economic and non – economic factors like prevalence of mass poverty, high population pressure on land, increasing landlessness, changing food habits, high income elasticity for meat and meat products could account for this growth in small ruminant population. The demand for small ruminants is basically a derived demand necessitated by the demand for mutton, milk, wool, hides, skins etc. In the present article, an attempt was made to explore the importance of small ruminant rearing in different livestock regions. The imbalances in large (cattle and buffalo) and small ruminant (sheep and goat) concentration is mainly due to demand for livestock products and availability of feed and fodder resources. This is largely on account of the vanishing common pasture and grazing lands. Hence, there is a need to have strong efforts to protect common property resources from increasing uses for non agriculture purposes and suitable technology should be developed for their improvement
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2012-02-06
 
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/15264
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 82, No 2 (2012)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/15264/7650
 
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