Yield prospects are doubtful as the monsoon season ends with 14% deficit
India had a bad monsoon spell this year, and the situation has worsened after nearly 6 years. Deficit monsoon season has adversely affected the...
Importance of Physically Effective Fiber in the Ration of Dairy Cattle
Dietary fiber is a key component of dairy cattle ration. Decreased milk fat percentage, reduced feed conversion ratio and hoof health problems are often...
Quality Maize Protein (QPM): A way ahead in respect of livestock feeding in india
Importance and limitations of existing maize as grains
At global level, maize accounts for 15% of proteins and 20% of calories in world food diet....
Enteric methane mitigation in ruminants: A nutritional approach
Green house gases in the atmosphere absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process contributes fundamentally to green house effect. Green...
Antibiotic residues and strategies to reduce or minimize in food producing animals
Abstract
Antibiotics are used in human medicine to treat infections, as prophylaxis to prevent infections post surgery/trauma and in food producing animals, to treat infections...
Art of managing high yielding cows!
Introduction
India is heading towards producing around 165 MT milk by 2020. Several projects and attempts are initiated by govt and private players to move...
Agricultural biotechnology has the potential to boost up the supply of raw material for...
When feed supplies are dwindling, prices are rising. With increasing demand in high protein food, can we afford to resist agriculture biotechnology, which offers...
Good quality pellets does it make sense?
Feed pelleting can be defined as conversion of finely ground mash feed into dense, free flowing pellets or capsules, in a process involving steam...
Trace minerals – What you see is not what you get
The Indian dairy sector has grown to enviable heights over the past few decades and there still lies a vast potential to be explored. ...
Instructions for better extruded feed
The preference of good-looking products on the fiercely competing market have had feed manufactures pay more attentions to the appearance quality of extruded feed...