Review-Cattle Breeding and dairy industry I India.Activities of the Government Agril.Dept.

Abstract

Departments of Agriculture in India realise that the condition of the cattle in this country is one of the most potent factors affecting the development of agriculture with the great increase in Population which has taken place within the last 50years the pressure on the land has also increased. and much land. previously available for grazzing has been brought under the plough.Large areas of culturable wast which once supported breeding are now producing agricultural crops some of which provide nothing in the way of food for cattle. Rhe cattle in their dump contentment have larged rather badly : their claims have found but few sound advocates. In the past.cattle owners relied on Nature be produce sufficient grazing for their herds.grazing areas, are being greatly reduced in size and no serious attempt has yet been made to provide a substitute by growing fodder crops. Until the cattle owner learns to readjust his farming policy to the new economic conditions which have arisen.the tendency will be for his draught and milch cattle to deteriorate owing to lack of sufficient food. Poor cattle result in a low standard of tillage a low standars of tillage result in poor yields of such fooder crops as are grown, and low yield of fodder results in cattle being under fed and i there being less cattle manure available for fertillizing the land. Agriculture in this country is thus moving in a vicious circle which makes rapid progress both in cattle breeding and crop production impossible.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002009

Pages

36 - 38

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