Goats
Biggest plant in Asia to produce cheese from goat milk
Small ruminant feed systems: perceptions and practices in the transitional zone of Ghana
Adequate feeding is essential to realizing the potential of small ruminants to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers.
Re-assessing the fodder problem
Small-scale farmers depend largely on their animals and need to feed them well. Technology based innovations have been the mainstream solution to improve the fodder problem. But making farmers find relevant information and networks appears to be as much effective for innovation.
New awards for livestock farmers instituted
Ludhiana: With the aim to give an impetus to the livestock sector in Punjab by strengthening the varsity’s extension programmes, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, has instituted separate awards in dairy, poultry and fishery. Earlier, it was giving only one award to innovative farmers in animal husbandry by holding competitions in the state.
Project on breeding of Beetal goats reviewed
Beetal is the only recognised goat breed in Punjab. Due to indiscriminate slaughter, breeding and movement to other states, this breed was on the verge of extinction from its home tract.
Training on goat management
A three-day training programme on ‘Scientific management of goats’ for the youths of Nagaland was organised by the Goat Research Station, Assam Agricultural University (AAU), Burnihat recently, stated a press release.
Semi-intensive goat farming projects opened in Darrang dist
For economic sustenance and to encourage goat farming in a scientific manner in rural areas, the first two ‘semi-intensive goat farming’ projects to be maintained by Saraswati Diamond SHG and Sanchita Diamond SHG under Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) in Darrang district were formally inaugurated by the SDO (Sadar), Darrang Gitanjali Dutta at Dakshin Chuburi and Satgharia village under Si<
India to clone pashmina goat
New Delhi: After successfully cloning buffalo, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is all set to embark on a project to clone endangered species, including pashmina goats that are found in Kashmir and are famous for fine quality wool.
"We hope to start the project to clone a pashmina goat in next two months," NDRI Director A K Srivastava told PTI.
India to clone pashmina goat
New Delhi: After successfully cloning buffalo, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is all set to embark on a project to clone endangered species, including pashmina goats that are found in Kashmir and are famous for fine quality wool.
"We hope to start the project to clone a pashmina goat in next two months," NDRI Director A K Srivastava told PTI.
After buffalo, NDRI set to clone pashmina goats
Encouraged by the second successful experiment of the cloned buffalo Garima on June 6, the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is set to go ahead with another experiment of cloning Changthangi or pashmina goat in Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh in next two months.
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