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Satish Serial Publishing House Feed and Fodder for Livestock Methods of Estimating Availability and Requirement by Thirunavukkarasu M
There has always been an insatiable need to estimate the availability of livestock feed and fodder in the country, in relation to what is required. Although there were a number of estimates of feed and fodder available and required for livestock, these estimates were unfortunately less compatible and less accurate, as the methodologies used for these estimations were either less realistic or relied too much on vague assumptions. Since the feed and fodder required by the livestock come from multivarious sources like grains, crop residues, pasture land, forest cover, common property resources, etc., it has often been a difficult task to estimate what is available and required in terms of livestock feed and fodder. Hence, there had only been approximations rather than estimations, based on too many less-realistic assumptions. Hence, an attempt was made to develop more realistic methodologies for estimating livestock feed and fodder availability and requirement in Tamil Nadu. The methodologies and procedures so developed are given in the form of formula and hence, any user needs only to plug in the values in the appropriate formula for his/her area and period to arrive at the results. Hence, these estimation methodologies will not highly be useful for estimating the feed and fodder availability and requirement for livestock, but also will help to devise plans for augmenting the feed and fodder availability and minimizing the supply-demand gap in feed and fodder situation.