Stock water, not fodder availability, is now the key limiting factor for livestock producers, even as hay and straw prices have shown a slight lift in the past week.
Economic Survey highlights fodder shortages as key challenge for India's livestock and fisheries sectors, impacting growth ...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with financial support from the World Bank, is distributing emergency fodder seeds to vulnerable Lesotho livestock owners affected by ...
Pix by Mandar Deshpande Bhoom (Dharashiv): For Amol Dhage, a 34-year-old dairy farmer from Chinchpur village in Bhoom tehsil, the wait for the truck carrying bags of silage was endless.Every few ...
Over the last decade, we have assumed that the only way to resolve Kenya’s hunger problem is through large-scale commercial agriculture or through genetically modified food. But this narrative may ...
Seed-ball technology is a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way of pasture development. Seed Balls support natural farming by minimizing soil disturbance, reducing the need for irrigation ...
Some of the livestock at the ongoing farmer’s exhibition at KALRO center in Naivasha feed on drought resistant forage.[Antony Gitonga, Standard] The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has ...