In case of management of farm animals, providing balanced feed to farm animals,
healthy atmosphere in animal sheds should be developed by farmers. Modern
techniques in rearing farm animals should be developed. Awareness should be
created among farmers by the government time to time. Keeping birds should be
encouraged to meet the demand of eggs and meat. Optimal utilization of animal
power should be used for work animals. It is observed from field survey that work
animals are diminishing rapidly due to farm mechanization. Collection of urine and
cow dung of farm animals was affected due to diminishing farm animals.
6 Conclusion and Recommendation
Sustainable agriculture entails an optimum production pattern of agricultural
commodities moving upward the shifting growth path, not only without depleting
the scare production resources but also enhancing and ensuring the conservation of
these resources for continuous use for all time to come. The first priority should be
to make handsome investment in agricultural research and development, especially,
in the state-level research institutes and agricultural universities, to develop technologies that become instrumental in promoting desirable production pattern that
economies on scarce resource use, restore and improve soil health, control water,
soil and air pollution and enhance productivity and improve farm incomes.
Feeding the nation with food grains remained the main focus, and rightly so, yet
the agricultural ecology was taken for granted and vote –bank-oriented electoral
interests were nurtured, ignoring the much needed corrective and ameliorative
measures. At best, the policy makers paid only lip service to the emerging disastrous
condition. Soft paddling by the politician in power and politicized bureaucracy
avoided rightful hard decisions. Now when the situation is visibly getting out of
control, there is a lot of talk in the air about the diversification and sustainability of
agricultural production pattern in the country. Unfocused input subsidies, in contrast
to investment subsidies, distort production pattern and adversely affect the sustainability of agricultural production systems.
Table 2 (continued)
Sl. No. Statements
p
q
|Z| Value Remark (α = 0.05)
E
Management of farm animals
1
Keeping milch animals
0.07 0.93 14.90
Significant
2
Keeping work animals
0.35 0.65
5.20
Significant
3
Keeping birds
0.56 0.44
2.08
Significant
4
Providing balanced feed to the animals
0.26 0.74
8.31
Significant
5
Providing health check up
0.49 0.51
0.35
Insignificant
6
Providing healthy atmosphere in the animal
sheds
0.39 0.61
3.70
Significant
7
Optimal utilization of animal power
0.31 0.69
6.58
Significant
Source Primary data 2012–13
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healthy atmosphere in animal sheds should be developed by farmers. Modern
techniques in rearing farm animals should be developed. Awareness should be
created among farmers by the government time to time. Keeping birds should be
encouraged to meet the demand of eggs and meat. Optimal utilization of animal
power should be used for work animals. It is observed from field survey that work
animals are diminishing rapidly due to farm mechanization. Collection of urine and
cow dung of farm animals was affected due to diminishing farm animals.
6 Conclusion and Recommendation
Sustainable agriculture entails an optimum production pattern of agricultural
commodities moving upward the shifting growth path, not only without depleting
the scare production resources but also enhancing and ensuring the conservation of
these resources for continuous use for all time to come. The first priority should be
to make handsome investment in agricultural research and development, especially,
in the state-level research institutes and agricultural universities, to develop technologies that become instrumental in promoting desirable production pattern that
economies on scarce resource use, restore and improve soil health, control water,
soil and air pollution and enhance productivity and improve farm incomes.
Feeding the nation with food grains remained the main focus, and rightly so, yet
the agricultural ecology was taken for granted and vote –bank-oriented electoral
interests were nurtured, ignoring the much needed corrective and ameliorative
measures. At best, the policy makers paid only lip service to the emerging disastrous
condition. Soft paddling by the politician in power and politicized bureaucracy
avoided rightful hard decisions. Now when the situation is visibly getting out of
control, there is a lot of talk in the air about the diversification and sustainability of
agricultural production pattern in the country. Unfocused input subsidies, in contrast
to investment subsidies, distort production pattern and adversely affect the sustainability of agricultural production systems.
Table 2 (continued)
Sl. No. Statements
p
q
|Z| Value Remark (α = 0.05)
E
Management of farm animals
1
Keeping milch animals
0.07 0.93 14.90
Significant
2
Keeping work animals
0.35 0.65
5.20
Significant
3
Keeping birds
0.56 0.44
2.08
Significant
4
Providing balanced feed to the animals
0.26 0.74
8.31
Significant
5
Providing health check up
0.49 0.51
0.35
Insignificant
6
Providing healthy atmosphere in the animal
sheds
0.39 0.61
3.70
Significant
7
Optimal utilization of animal power
0.31 0.69
6.58
Significant
Source Primary data 2012–13
276
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