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Livestock Improvement in India

1937

Selection of Breed and Type.—Given a suitable Animal husbandry department the first thing to be done is to consider what kind of stock is to be raised and it is essential at the outset to arrive at sound decisions as to the particular breeds and types which are likely to suit the circumstances and localities in which breeding is to be carried on. [...] Where the supply of liquid milk is a profitable undertaking and where there are good facilities for the production of fodder crops the choice would obviously fall on the dairy type but the ordinary cultivator should as far as possible be in a position to choose the type of sire he considers the most suitable for his particular cows and for his requirements. [...] Moreover since a long time is required to see the results of a policy and there is a natural tendency of individual breeders to repeat breeding experments—in spite of previous failures of which they may not be aware—it is necessary to emphasise as strongly as possible that systematic improvment of the best indigenous breeds of Indian cattle is the only practicable policy for the generality o [...] to interfere with the production of useful work cattle it appears that the production of more and better much cattle is a matter of great importance and urgency for the welfare of the people of India. [...] E. the Viceroy was discussed in detail first by the Standing Cattle Breeding Committee of the Advisory Board of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research held at Simla in J uiy 1936 and then by the Livestock Improvement Committee of the Second Animal husbandry Wing meeting of the Board of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry held at Madras in December 1936.
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