Vol. 7, Special Issue 6 (2019)
Strategies to increase quality and availability of green fodder production in eastern region of India: A review
Author(s): Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, SK Choudhary, Suborna Roy Choudhury, AK Dixhit, SN Dubey and Ravindra Pal Singh
Abstract: India is blessed with diversified type of livestock and it is one of the largest in the world. However, the area under fodder cultivation decreasing day by day as increasing cultivation of cereal and cash crops. Therefore, there is a tremendous pressure of livestock on available fodder as land has been decreasing for green fodder production. The green fodder production in the country is not sufficient to meet the requirements of the growing livestock population and also the forages offered to animal are mostly of poor quality. At present, the country faces a net deficit of 10.95% dry crop residues, 35.6 % green fodder and 44% concentrate feed ingredients (Vision document-2050, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi). The animals are largely fed on low quality fodders such as different crop residues, paddy and wheat straw, weeds and wild grasses from wastelands and forest. Such low quality feeding material leads to low milk productivity per animal. Under this situation needs to be addressed through alternative sources of green fodder which could provide good quality green fodder round the year so that the milk productivity as well as animal health may not jeopardised. Cereal-legume intercropping has been recognized as a beneficial crop production system for higher fodder production per unit area per unit time.
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Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, SK Choudhary, Suborna Roy Choudhury, AK Dixhit, SN Dubey and Ravindra Pal Singh. Strategies to increase quality and availability of green fodder production in eastern region of India: A review. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2019; 7(6): 216-222.
