Dairying in India has emerged as an important sub-sector, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total livestock contribution to GNP with an encouraging growth rate of five per cent over years. Through improved breeding, feeding and management programmes, there has been marked improvement in the country's milk production and productivity of milch animals. The ...

A study was designed and carried out in Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar and Kanyakumari districts of southern Tamil Nadu with the objective of identifying and ranking the constraints in livestock marketing in rural livestock markets. Garrett’s ranking method was used to analyze the constraints of livestock marketing. The analysis of data revealed that high ...

A study was undertaken in dry land farming system of Southern Tamil Nadu to analyse the economics of sheep production in dry land farming and its contribution to income inequality, to analyse the resource use efficiency in sheep farming in different categories of farms, to optimize the sheep production in dry land farming system, to analyse the gender involveme...