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National level e-symposium on “Agroforestry system for augmenting livestock
productivity and empowering resource poor rural farmers”

1. Providing shelters like slatted floor sheds. It can be tiled or with metal sheets. Shelters give
protection from predators, extreme weather like heavy down pour of rain or high temperature. In
one of the On farm studies we have fond that the incidence of kids mortality due to poor milk yield
from mother was reduced from 13 % to 5 %, when the pregnant goats were given supplementary
feed in stalls and taken adequate care. Incidence of coccidiosis and tape worm infestation was also
reduced to 5 % from 12%.

2. Complete feeding using crop residues: like maize stover, sorghum stover, groundnut haulsms ( 50
%) Ground Grains like Maize or Sorghum ( 30 %) Brans ( 17%) Mineral mixture 2% and Sodium
chloride 1% were prepared and feed @ 250 g/day in addition to grazing. After eight months the
males weighed 6 kg more than non fed rams and females weighed 4 kg more. The profit margin was
Rs.1150/ sheep with a b.C ratio of 1:1.9.
Traditional farmers accept that dairy cows has to be maintained for daily income a, Desi chicken for
monthly income and Sheep, Goats for annual income. In addition livestock gives back manure and urine
as a fertilizer for agriculture production. Integrating livestock in dry land farming is one of the sustainable
occupation.

20 Institute of Animal Nutrition, Centre for Animal Production Studies, TANUVAS
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development