IIMB Management Review
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In recent years, after the much acclaimed success of the Green
Revolution, the nation’s planners are coming to realize that it is not adequate for
the nation to have enough to eat, it is also important to have quality food. There
has, therefore, recently been a new emphasis on industries such as dairy and
poultry. It has been realized that there is a need to harness India’s enormous
animal resources. (There are, by one estimate, some 480 million livestock in the
country, including about 230 million cattle and 136 million poultry). Significant
improvements in the productivity of livestock can be effected in two ways, one
by improving the genetic quality by systematic cross breeding and two, by
improving the quality of feeds. Many efforts are already afoot to improve the
genetic quality of livestock. Improving the quality of feeds, which is the topic of
this paper, is not an easy problem, since, in a developing country with limited
resources, livestock have to compete with humans for even coarse foodgrains.
Hence this paper stresses the use of non-conventional feeds.
Recommended Citation
Prasad, Krishna; Gopalan, M R; and Sridhar, S
(1989)
"A DSS for animal nutrition planning,"
IIMB Management Review: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://research.iimb.ac.in/imr/vol4/iss1/6
Publication Date
6-1-1989
First Page
19
Last Page
33
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