Sustainable Livestock Development

Quantum jump in per capita consumption of milk, meat and eggs Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan Increasing per capita consumption of milk increases the domestic demand of milk. As domestic consumption of milk increases, as a result of wide demand supply gap scarcity arises. Even though consumption of food grains has decreased during the year 2007-2008, animal protein sources like milk, meat and eggs shows a positive trend. This emphasizes the need for increasing domestic production to meet the ever-increasing need for animal protein sources. As India is growing richer, Indians are growing hungrier. Annual per capita cereal and pulses availability has declined from 457 gm and 40.16 gm respectively in 1995 and to 391 gm and 31.5 gm respectively in 2005. The per capita daily cereal availability is lower than 393.1 gm of cereal and almost 47 percent of the 67.2 gm of pulses available in 1960 to the Indian population. But Indians are eating more meat and eggs. Per capit...

Changing Landscape of Farm Journalism Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan “ You should never try to win an argument. That is a low form of conversation. You should let the other person speak his mind and then just let in your piece, leaving it to the words to do their work gently. While writing you try to avoid favorite forms of phrases or words that you think will score over other person but sacrifices them in the interests of brevity and clarity. Never underestimate or overestimate a person because of his appearance”- Late Sri. K.R.Narayanan Introduction We are living in an era characterized by different levels of human disparity and livelihood insecurity. More than 20 crores of people in the country are living below poverty line. Protein malnutrition is an alarming issue; whereas food safety is an imminent issue. The availability and requirement of animal protein sources are more than...