Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges & Opportunities
during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
promising effects on productivity of animals. UMMB supplementation significantly increases
feed intake, milk yield and growth rate and is therefore a cost-effective. UMMB provides
fermentable nitrogen, energy and minerals necessary for optimum microbial growth. Molasses
is noted for its sugar content and urea is a non-protein nitrogen compound (Rajesh Singh,
2021). The UMMB supplementation in feed of Ruminants was carried out in NICRA adopted
villages from 2018 to 2021. Feeding of UMMB to animals led in the marked increase in mean
% of SNF (8.35%), milk yield (3.6 l/day) over that of the control group fed without
supplementation of mineral blocks with mean % of SNF (7.93%), milk yield (2.95 l/day).
Backyard Poultry Rearing
Livestock and poultry provide a major contribution to India’s economy. In rural economy
poultry farming contributes an important role especially for the socio-economic development
of the weaker section of the society in India (Vermaet al., 2020). It generates self-employment,
provides supplementary income and supplements protein rich diet at relatively low cost. In the
state, the source of egg and meat production is mostly from exotic layers and broilers as well as
the traditional local breeds. The high yielding layers and broilers cannot survive under suboptimal
nutritional and managerial condition within stressful environment. The local breeds are
very low productive with laying capacity of 20-30 eggs per year and very slower growth. These
breeds are replaced with superior breeds phenotypically similar to existing poultry population
& can acclimatize local climatic conditions. Under the NICRA project 60 rural women from
NICRA adopted villages every year are supplied with kadaknath breed of poultry birds (10
each) with good egg & meat production from which self-employment has been created by
generation of additional income to women through sale of eggs & meat.
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Rajesh Singh. 2021. Urea molasses mineral blocks as a feed supplement.
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