Track 3-2-1: Grazing Pressure, Industrialisation, Land Use Change, Policies and Social Programmes
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Publication Date
2015
Location
New Delhi, India
Description
Dairying is the next-best alternative for rural livelihood after crop in South Asia, where more than fifty percent of population depends on it. The milk production is concentrated in the rain-fed and irrigated crop-livestock systems of India, which contributes more than 90 percent of milk production in South Asia. Despite this vast expansion of milk production in India–dairying is characterized by a predominance of small-scale dairy producers who cultivates or have no land and reliance only on indigenous breeds of cattle and buffaloes, where grazing plays an important role for feed. However, dependency on indigenous cattle and grazing changes based on farming and market intensification, and also agro-ecology. This paper would like study the level of access to grassland for livestock feed in different market intensification level.
Citation
Swain, Braja and Singh, Dhiraj, "Dairy Intensification and Grassland Access for Livestock: A Comparative Study of India and Bangladesh" (2015). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 5.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/23/3-2-1/5)
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Dairy Intensification and Grassland Access for Livestock: A Comparative Study of India and Bangladesh
New Delhi, India
Dairying is the next-best alternative for rural livelihood after crop in South Asia, where more than fifty percent of population depends on it. The milk production is concentrated in the rain-fed and irrigated crop-livestock systems of India, which contributes more than 90 percent of milk production in South Asia. Despite this vast expansion of milk production in India–dairying is characterized by a predominance of small-scale dairy producers who cultivates or have no land and reliance only on indigenous breeds of cattle and buffaloes, where grazing plays an important role for feed. However, dependency on indigenous cattle and grazing changes based on farming and market intensification, and also agro-ecology. This paper would like study the level of access to grassland for livestock feed in different market intensification level.
