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 |
The dairy farming in India is becoming independent and economically viable enterprise that provides quick and regular income to the farmers from the sale of milk and its by-products. Beside, supplementing income of the farmers it also supports the livelihood in the event of crop failures, often occurred due to aberrant weather situation. However, success of dairy farming mainly depends on feed and fodder of good quality. Unfortunately, there is shortage of quality fodder in India due to less area under cultivation. The animals are largely fed on inferior quality fodders such as crop residues, straw, weeds and wild grasses from wastelands and forest. Such low quality feeding material leads to low milk productivity per animal. This situation needs to be addressed through alternative sources of fodder which could provide good quality fodder round the year so that the milk productivity as well as animal health may not jeopardised. In terms of quality and availability of good quality fodder hybrid napier proved to be a better option under Indian conditions because of its perennial nature, profuse tillering habit, high yield, palatability, nutritional value and suitability for silage making than other forage crops. Hybrid napier grass may be a boon for dairy industry on account of supply of adequate green fodder of high nutritional value with round the year availability and minimum expense on repeated fodder cultivation.
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