Trends in Small Ruminant Production : Perspectives and Prospects

Contents: Preface. 1. Small ruminant production in India: issues and approaches/S.A. Karim. 2. Genomics and selection in small ruminants/Neelam Gupta and S.C. Gupta. 3. Issues and strategies for sheep breeding program in India/Anil Kumar Mishra. 4. Prolific sheep: a promise to make and deliver for the socio-economic upliftment of sheep farmer/A.L. Arora, Ashish Chopra and L. Leslie Leo Prince. 5. Genomic selection in small ruminants: global status challenges and opportunities/S.P. Dixit and Dinesh Kumar. 6. Techniques for enhancing reproductive efficiency in small ruminants/A.K. Goel. 7. The state of the art in the artificial insemination of sheep/S.M.K. Naqvi and Davendra Kumar. 8. Climate change and sheep production: concept of multiple stresses adaptation and mitigation strategies to sustain production/V. Sejian and S.M.K. Naqvi. 9. Male reproductive biotechnology of goats advances and constraints/S.K. Jindal and Priyadharshini Raju. 10. Understanding stress pathways involved in modulation of GnRH/LH release in the EWE/J.B. Phogat and S.P.S. Ghuman. 11. Stem cell: advances and prospects in farm animals/Satish Kumar. 12. Relevance and importance of pasture based production system of small ruminants in India/K. Sharma, A.K. Pattanaik and K.Y. Deshpande. 13. Effect of probiotics direct fed microbials on small ruminant production/D.N. Kamra and Neeta Agarwal. 14. Expanding feed resource base for nutritional security of ruminants/R.C. Jakhmola. 15. Nutritional augmentation of consumer preferred trait specific quality enhancement in meat, wool and milk production/A. Sahoo and R.S. Bhatt. 16. In vitro gas production technique for feed evaluation an overview/B. Singh. 17. Nutritional management of sheep under thermal migratory and transportation stress/S.K. Sankhyam and O.H. Chaturvedi. 18. Stall feeding system in small ruminants: future perspectives/U.B. Chaudhary, T.K. Dutta, M.K. Tripathi and P. Tripathi.  19. Epidemiology and management of gastrointestinal Helminths in small ruminants an update/D. Singh and C.P. Swarnkar. 20. Genetics of disease resistance in small ruminants: scope and future application/P.K. Rout. 21. Neonatal mortality in small ruminants: issues and management/V.K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar. 22. Meat production and value addition where we stand?/S. Sureshkumar, D. Santhi and A. Kalaikannan. 23. Small ruminant meat in India: production and export prospects/Suresh A. 24. Pelt production: counts and discounts/A.K. Shinde. 25. Recent advances in wool and woollen processing/V.S. Goud and J.S. Udakhe. 26. Advances in wool based non woven technical textiles/G. Thilagavathi, V.R. Giridev, T. Senthilram and A.S.M. Raja. 27. Non conventional utilisation of wool and other animal Hairs/D.B. Shakyawar and A.S.M. Raja. 28. Developments in processing and product development of speciality hair fibres Pashmina/Sarfaraz A. Wani, D.B. Shakyawar and Asif H. Sofi. 29. Advances in eco-friendly processing of woollen textiles/A.S.M. Raja and Ajaya Kumar. 30. Development of woollen khadi spinning system/R. Chattopadhyay, D.B. Shakyawar and Nishant Kumar. 31. Scope performance and current status of broiler rabbit production in India/Rajeev Gulyani. 32. Existing technology transfer system where we stand/Hema Tripathi and Shabeer Ahmad Hamdani. 33. Linking goat farmers and markets for improving productivity and livelihoods/Shalander Kumar, Khem Chand and M.M. Roy. 34. Current status and role of extension in promotion and development of sheep in India/Rajeev Gulyani and L.R. Meena.

Two third of worlds population live in Asia below poverty line and more than 65% of them are poor livestock keepers earning their livelihood from small ruminant sector. Significantly quantifiable organised research has been carried out in our country in small ruminant sector by various non governmental organisations and government research institutes which are well documented and presented at various platforms. However the small ruminant farmers especially the landless and marginal category are solely depended upon livestock resources and are rarely benefited by the developed technologies.

The basic characteristics of sheep and goat husbandry in India is largely depends upon common property resources, herbage produced particularly during monsoon season and vegetation left after harvesting the crops. The changing land utilization pattern and climatic condition in general further affect the feed resource availability and small ruminant production in particular. Since crop production is a gamble of monsoon and failed very frequently in the semi arid and arid regions of the country the basic livelihood and sustenance to major chunk of human population is being provided by livestock farming especially sheep and goat husbandry. It was thus felt that we need to assess and retrospect the causes of non adoption of our technologies under field condition and further how best the developed technologies need to be modified to suit percolate and applied to a greater extent for the improvement of small ruminant productivity. Keeping in view this objective the National Seminar with the theme title Prospects and Retrospect of Small Ruminant and Rabbit Production: contribution to socio-economic security was organised under the ages of Indian society for sheep and goat production and utilization ISSGPU and Central Wool Development Boad CWDB Jodhpur at Jaipur and various expert resource personnel like field workers, NGOs technocrats and researchers were invited to address the issue in right perspective. They have discussed contributed and presented and their findings in very scientific manner which can be further be a useful tool for taking up future strategies and to modify the program. It was felt that this valued information will be very useful if complied in a book form and initiative started to do so. The current book entitled Trends in Small Ruminant Production: Perspectives and Prospects contains 34 chapters covering national scenario of small ruminant husbandry current production level and country's requirement, current research trends and findings with regards to production reproduction feeding breeding health of small ruminants and rabbits and utilization and value addition of their produce meat milk wool. Further how best these technologies can be implicated under current small ruminant rearing system to have better productivity from the native and upgraded germplasm and how best this can improve socio-economic status and livelihood of the farmers. This book also give insight of future line of research to meet our demand and supply gap in terms of milk meat and wool production. (jacket)