Strategies for livestock development in rainfed agro-ecosystem of India

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Misra, A K ^a   Rama Rao, C A ^a   Subrahmanyam, K V ^a   Vijay Sankar Babu, M ^b   Shivarudrappa, B ^c   Ramakrishna, Y S ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b ACHARYA N G RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c BAIF Institute for Rural Development Karnataka   (India)

Author keywords

India; Livelihood; Livestock development; Rain fed agro ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE;

EID: 34250024260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01213784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ashley S, Holden S and Bazeley P 1999 Livestock in poverty focused development. Livestock in Development, Grewkerne, UK http://www.theidlgroup. com/downloads/livestock.pdf
2. Conner J R, Hamilton W T, Sheehy D P, Smith J W and Kreuter U P 1998 Grassland based livestock production in Temperate zones. World Animal Review 90: 6-13 http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/W8600T/w8600t03.htm
3. Conroy C, Thakur Y and Vadher M 2002 The efficacy of participatory development of thecjnolgies: experiences with resource poor goat-keepers in India. Livestock Research for Rural Development 14 (3). http://www.cipav.org.co/ lrrd/lrrd14/3/conr143.htm
4. Deoghare P R 1997 Sustainability of on-farm income and employment through livestock production in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh. India Journal of Animal Sciences 67:916-919
5. Francis J and Sibanda S 2001 Participatory action research experience in smallholder farming in Zimbabwe. Livestock Research for Rural Development. (13) 3: http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd13/3/fran133.htm
6. Garcia O, Saha A, Mahmood K, Ndambi A and Hemme T 2006 Dairy development programs in Andhra Pradesh, India: impacts and risk for small-scale dairy farms. Pro-poor Livestock Policy Initiative Working Paper No 38 http://www.fao.org/ag/AGAinfo/projects/en/pplpi/docarc/wp38.pdf
7. GOI (Government of India) 2002 Report of the working group on Animal Husbandry and Dairying for the tenth five year plan (2002-2007). Working Group Sr. No. 42/2001. Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
8. GOI (Government of India) 2005 Annual Report 2004-05. Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi, India. http://dahd.nic.in/rep/2005/English/Text.pdf
9. ISPA 1997 Livestock feeding situation in Andhra Pradesh: Options for improvement. Report No.22/97. Indo-Swiss Project, Andhra Pradesh, India
10. ILRI 2003 Livestock, a pathway out of poverty: ILRI strategy to 2010. International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi. http://www.ilri.org/ Strategic/toc.html
11. Misra A K 2005 Contingency planning for feeding and management of livestock during drought. In: K D Sharma and K S Ramasastri (Editors) Drought Management.Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. pp 276-286
12. Misra A K 2006 Integration of livestock in land use diversification. In: K.D. Sharma and B. Soni (Editors) Land Use Diversification for sustainable rain-fed areas agriculture. Atlantic Publishers and Distributor's, New Delhi. pp 277-299
13. Misra A K, Dwivedi P N, Upadhyay V S, Bhag Mal and Dhanoa M S 1997 Socio-economic analysis of livestock production in smallholder rain-fed farming systems in India. Proceedings of an International Conference on Food, Land and Livelihood, KARI, Narobi, Kenya, Jan. 27-30, pp.157-158
14. Misra A K, Reddy B M K, Rekha M S, Reddy G S and Singh H P 2000 Sheep and goat farming in rain-fed areas: Constraints and options for improvement on smallholder production systems. In: Thomas C K and Sastry N S R (Editors): Smallholder livestock production in developing courtiers. KAU, Thrissaur, pp. 133-144
15. Misra A K, Subramanyam K V, Babu M V S, Reddy T Y, Shivarudrappa B and Ramakrishna Y S 2006 Improving the livelihood of landless and marginal farmers through sheep rearing in rain-fed agro-ecosystem of India. Livestock Research for Rural Development 18: 5 http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd18/5/ misr18073.htm
16. Parthasarthy Rao P, Brithal P S and Ndjeunaga J 2005 Crop-Livestock Economies in the Semi-arid Tropics: Facts, Trends and Outlook. Patencheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India. ICRISAT. 68pp http://www.icrisat.org/ gtmpi/WhatsNew/J726_2004%20_Livestock%20outlook.pdf
17. Pasha S M 2000 Economy and ecological dimensions of livestock economy. Commonwealth publishers, New Delhi.
18. Peters M, Horne P, Schmidt A, Holmann F, Kerridge P C, Tarawali S A, Schultze-Kraft R, Lascano C E, Argel P, Stur W, Fujisaka S, Muller-Samann K and Wortmann C 2001 The Role of Forages in Reducing Poverty and Degradation of Natural Resources in Tropical Production Systems. AgREN Network Paper No. 117. July 2001. London: ODI. http://www.odi.org.uk/agren/papers/agrenpaper_117.pdf
19. Puskur R, Bouma J and Scott C 2004 Sustainable livestock production in semi-arid watersheds. Economic and Political weekly, 31 July 2004:3477-3483
20. Rangnekar D V 2006 Livestock and livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India: A review. International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. 72 pp http://www.ilri.org/Infoserv/webpub/fulldocs/ LivestockInTheLivelihoods/LivestockUP_India_Final.pdf
21. Reddy G S, Reddy B M K, Misra A K, Prabhakar M and Sambrajyam A 2005 TAR-IVLP: On-farm assessment and refinement of technologies in Southern Telangana Zone of Andhra Pradesh. NATP. Central Research Institute for Dryalnd Agriculture, Hyderabd, India. 54pp
22. Sharma V P 2004 Livestock economy in India: current status, emerging issues and long term prospects. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 59: 512-554
23. Shukla R K and Brahmankar S D 1999 Impact evaluation of operation flood on rural dairy sector. National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi pp.58-60.
24. Singh H P, Sharma K D, Reddy G S and Sharma K L 2004 Dryland agriculture in India. In: Challenges and strategies for dreyland agriculture. CSSA Special Publication no. 32. Madison, USA pp. 67-92
25. Turner R L 2004 Livestock production and rural poor in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa States, India. Pro-poor Livestock Policy Initiative Working Paper No. 9. FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload/153481/wp9.pdf
26. World Bank 1999 India: Livestock Sector review: Enhancing growth and development. The World Bank and Allied Publishers: New Delhi.