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Documentation of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITKs) system prevalent among poultry farmers of Palakkad district, Kerala

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Title Documentation of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITKs) system prevalent among poultry farmers of Palakkad district, Kerala
 
Creator P G, Vineetha
T P, Shamna
S, Prasoon
 
Subject Broiler farming
Layer farming
Poultry diseases
Poultry feeding
Poultry housing
Summer stress
 
Description 505-513
A number of communities, most of which have distinctive long-established knowledge and know-how base, populate Kerala state. Indigenous technological knowledge can be encouraged through a scientific approach as one of the means of sustainable agricultural practices, which will be environment-friendly. ITK that are in practice all over rural India is little acknowledged and there is a threat of loss of this knowledge. Hence some of the local knowledge and technologies were studied and the importance of the same has been evaluated. The study was carried out within the scaffold of poultry farming and allied activities. A broad range of varied sectors including poultry housing, feeding and disease management were taken into account for the purpose of the study. It is observed from the study that farmers adopt traditional knowledge in every aspects of poultry farming including housing, brooding, feeding management, hatching process, seasonal management, poultry health management etc. The documented ITKs showed the richness of the time-tested traditional knowledge applied to animal husbandry in the region specified under the study.
 
Date 2023-09-29T12:02:24Z
2023-09-29T12:02:24Z
2023-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/62653
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v22i3.5727
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.23: A01K 31/00, A61K 36/00, A01K 41/00
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJTK Vol.22(3) [July 2023]