Organic livestock farming: A review
Nagappa Banuvalli, T. N. Krishnamurthy, H. S. Ramesh, B. G. Veeranna Gowda, P. M. Gururaj, M. Harisha
Abstract
In recent days there has been an increased health concern over quality of milk, meat and egg products due to the presence of various pesticides, insecticide, chemicals, drugs and hormone residues. Due to this organic livestock farming is increasing at rapid pace worldwide with faster growth in demand of organic milk, meat and eggs products. Organic livestock farming is most suitable to our Indian conditions because of indigenous technical knowledge and practices followed by Indian farmers. In order to make organic livestock and poultry farming successful there is a need to take care of certain issues, like health management, record keeping, breeding strategies, certification, cost of production and cost of inputs etc
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