Introduction Because of historical, geographical and demographic conditions Bhutan has a comparative advantage for livestock production. In spite of this favourable conditions the high expectations from development interventions of the seventies and eighties could only be partly realized. After thirty years of intensive breeding programmes, with high inputs of financial and human resources, Bhu...

In the intensive livestock production systems, with decrease in grazing land and intensification of agriculture, the animal feeds are most likely to be contaminated with pesticides, dioxins, radionuclide, heavy metals, bacterial, fungal / mycotoxin contaminants etc., which may , market, it is the need of the hour to produce the livestock products free from contaminants. The feeds and fodders ar...

Background/objective: Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) is a metabolite of the aflatoxin B1 found in the liver of livestock, as a result of feeding livestock with contaminated food. Certain species of Aspergillus are responsible for producing aflatoxin. The present study was performed to evaluate the measurement of AFM1, by ELISA method, in milk samples collected from dairy farms of Shahre Ghods, Shahriar (T...

The evolution of livestock production is analysed on its historical perspective and forecasted up to year 2020. Livestock production needs at year 2020 and the amount of required animal populations are estimated on the basis of the trend of the period 1971-1999 relative to human population, consumption, and animal efficiency index. At word level, the deficit between production and needs is rema...

The International Food Policy Research Institute was established to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting food needs in the world, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries. While the research effort is geared to the precise objective of contributing to the reduction of hunger and malnut...

Livestock production is the major livelihood for a growing local population on Tibetan plateau. However, government policy to reduce number of livestock due large quantities greenhouse gasses (GHG), in particular methane, produced by ruminants and degradation grasslands. For this be effective, with little effect livelihoods, there should decoupling GHG emissions from economic growth products. T...