National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Sustainable forage production is inevitable in order to meet fodder demand of rising Indian livestock population and also to enhance the livestock productivity. The prime reasons for poor livestock productivity in India are scarcity of fodder, poor and insufficient nutrition, hormonal inequity, low productive breeds, diseases and pest attack etc. Sustainable fodder production must focus on round the year supply of nutritious fodder to livestock in adequate amount. Utilization of wastelands, grasslands, degraded lands, community lands, fallow lands, barren lands etc. for tree-based forage production system is one of the viable option for sustaining quality fodder supply to livestock. This can be achieved by integrating fodder trees, fodder shrubs, fodder grasses and fodder legume species in silvipastoral form, utilization of field bunds and interspaces of orchard and plantation for fodder production, growing fodder tree on grasslands and pasture lands, establishing fodder banks etc.
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