Sustainable Livestock Development

Impact of Bottom up planning on Sustainable rural development in Kerala, India Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan As far as India is concerned, more than 80 percent of the people are living in rural areas. Being one of the developing countries rural development plays a key role in the country. Sustainable development is the main challenge in rural India. As part of agriculture, livestock sector plays a key role in sustainable rural development of the country. Short gestation period, easily marketable commodities, chances of quick returns, better productivity, high nutritive value of the products, etc are some of the advantages of livestock sector. Organic manure from livestock sector enriches soil and increases crop yield. Thus agriculture and livestock sector are interrelated. Sectors like irrigation, electricity, marketing, housing, fisheries, etc are also related to rural development. A coordinated planning coupled with implementation of programmes will haste...

SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEM -AN OVERVIEW Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan India is blessed with enormous animal wealth comprising 54%Buffaloes, 16%cattle, 21%goats, 5%sheep and 2%poultry population of the world. Indian livestock wealth worth Rs80000 Crores contributes Rs183000 Crores to the National GDP, which is over 1\3rd of the contribution from agriculture. Livestock sector provides employment to 70% of the population in rural areas. As per recent statistics, India is the highest milk producing country in the world with an annual production of over 78 million tones of milk. USA stands second with 71 million tones of milk. Out of 210 million cattle and 75 million buffaloes more than 52% of milk is from buffaloes; which constitute around 38% of livestock population. In terms of economic accomplishment, milk is number one farm commodity towards contribution to National economy. Per capita milk availability has touched now 225 gm per day and it may increase to ...