Livestock management situation under farmers' household in the western hill of Nepal- report on samuhik bhraman
2000
Rana, R.S. | Amatya, N. | Nepali, M.B. | Joshi, B.R. | Joshi, H.D.(Agriculture Research Station, Lumle (Nepal))
A samuhik bhraman (joint trek) was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of livestock experts in eight sites located in the research command areas of Agriculture Research Station, Lumle in the western hills of Nepal using Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) Technique. This joint trek of the study revealed that the crop residues were the major source of feed for livestock throughout the visited areas with supplementation of fodder tree, green grasses and kundo (local concentrate) as available. February-April were the most critical livestock feed scarcity periods. Fodder trees like Kimbu (Morus alba), Kavro (Ficus lacor), Khanyu (Ficus cunia) and Badahar (Artocarpus lakoocha) were potential resources of feed for livestock during this dry period. Farmers of river basin to low hill were dependent on home yard grown tree fodder and green grasses, whereas, farmers of mid to high hill depended on communal forest for the same. The complete stall-feeding and semi-stall feeding was prevalent from river basin to mid hill and migratory management system was predominant in high hills. It was found that the parasitic problem particularly liver fluke and infertility in large ruminants were causing more economic losses. Liver fluke infestation might be due to the source of animal feed and it was more prevalent in lower and mid hill regions particularly in irrigated and wet areas than in high hill areas. The main cause of infertility in large ruminants might be due to inadequate feed. Summing up, nutrition was the constraint affecting adversely to the health of livestock.
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