Livestock Health and Management

Sudesh Radotra (Edited by), V K Sharma (Author), Arun Sharma (Author), Daisy Wadhwa (Author), Devi Gopinath (Author), Gouri Jairath (Author)

9789390591237

Hardback, published 14 November 2022

272 pages
25 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.495 kg

This book provides a comprehensive text and reference guide for livestock production, health, nutrition, and crop mixed farming. Although there are many foreign books available on this subject, they are prohibitively expensive and written in a complex manner. Therefore, this book is both useful and accessible to students, teachers, scientists, and industry professionals working in animal production and general animal health management, as well as crop mixed farming for nutritional security. The books authors are esteemed researchers and professors from various veterinary and agricultural colleges and ICAR research institutes across the country.

The book covers a wide range of topics related to livestock farming, health, and production, and also includes insights into crop mixed farming and aquaculture. It is unique in its approach, catering to the needs of its reader community and offering solutions to various problems related to livestock farming and agriculture.

• 1. Role of Livestock in Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in India
• 2. Integrating Crops and Livestock in Indian Agricultural Systems What is the Way Forward?
• 3. Pig Production Attractive Entrepreneurship for Livelihood Security
• 4. Role of Poultry for Livelihood Security in Northern India
• 5. Migratory Pastoralism: Mainstay of Hill Livestock Farming Constraints and Future Prospects
• 6. Animal Nutrition Technologies: Farmers' Perception and Future Strategies
• 7. Role of Prebiotics in Gastrointestinal Health and Function
• 8. Modern Biotechnological Tools for Augmenting Livestock Production and Health
• 9. Techniques of Boar Semen Collection, Preservation and Artificial Insemination
• 10. Food and Feeding Strategies in Freshwater Aquaculture
• 11. Defining The Role of Occupational Physiology and Ergonomics for Improvement of Health and Productivity of Indian Inland Fishermen
• 12. Freshwater Fish Transgenics: Implications and Issues
• 13. Nutritional Management of Macro Minerals Disorders in Peri-parturient Dairy Animals
• 14. Hormonal Regulation of Partitioning of Nutrients in Bypass Fat Supplemented Animals
• 15. Nutrigenomics: A New Concept in Animal Nutrition Tools and its Applications
• 16. Effects of Plant Bioactives on Protein Metabolism and GI Parasite in Small Ruminants
• 17. Molecular Breeding to Enhance Production in Livestock
• 18. Water Footprints of Dairy Cattle Husbandry
• 19. Formulation and Supplementation of Urea Molasses Mineral Blocks for Improving Animal Production
• 20. An Overview of Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Zoonotic Diseases
• 21. Toxicopathology of Important Plants of North-Western Himalayan Region of India
• 22. Agro-Industrial Wastes as Animal Feed for Economic Livestock Production
• 23. Vectors and Vector Transmitted Diseases of Ruminants
• 24. Sustainable Control Measure for Gastro-Intestinal Nematodes of Small Ruminants