Producing enough milk to meet growing demand and make a living is a challenge for dairy farmers, most of who rely on one-three acre farms.. But thanks to the foresight of an old woman and the ...

Goats play an important role in the food and nutritional (source of protein) security of the rural poor especially in the rain-fed area where crop production is uncertain, and rearing large ruminants ...

A group of 6,800 dairy farmers have built a milk chilling plant that together with changes in feed and better information has raised the earnings of their company, Metkei Multi Purpose Ltd. File photo ...

ANIMAL productivity depends on genes, nutrition and management. In our country, nutritional requirements of livestock are mainly met through fodder, shrubs, grasses and agro-industrial by-products.

The extent to which animals are dependent on shrubs and trees for fodder is probably not fully realized by those accustomed to associate grazing with true grass or grass–legume pastures, ranges or ...

Tlotlo Phuduhudu, founder of Healthy Delights company, shows some of the livestock feeds produced using indigenous trees, plant by-products, and crop residue in Molepolole, Botswana, on Sept. 20, 2022 ...

Plans are afoot to increase fodder plants in Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary, on the outskirts of the city. BHUBANESWAR: Plans are afoot to increase fodder plants in Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary, on the ...

LAST month, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council gave a go-ahead for the commercial cultivation of two newly developed hybrid varieties of fodder crops. The Parc has developed and tested these ...

DECADES of experience in the commercial livestock production sector of Namibia have shown that one of the surest ways to bankrupt a farming business quickly is to feed expensive emergency fodder ...

A major advantage of calliandra and other fodder shrubs like Trichandra and Mulberry is that farmers do not have to stop growing other crops to make room for them. The shrubs are grown in hedges ...