Forage Production Technologies

Provides a focus on the economic symbiosis of crop and cattle husbandry in India. It discusses livestock feeding, feed and fodder resources and nutritive evaluation of fodder. It also describes the pasture and other forage production systems and their management. It gives features of cereal, grass, legume and treeleaf fodder species along with package of practices for cultivation and includes information on non-conventional feeds and fodder, anti-nutritional principles, fodder preservation, fortification of low-grade roughage, feed supplements and additives. The appendices contain botanical and common names of fodder crops, abstracted package of practices and nutritive value of common feeds and fodder.