Poultry Strategy for Feed Efficiency and Heat Tolerance
The poultry farmer aims to improve bird performance by selecting for specific traits: low feed consumption, high heat tolerance, and the ability to produce quality chicks. The strategy must directly address these genetic or inherent characteristics.
Evaluating Breeding Strategies
- Cross-breeding exotic and local poultry is the most suitable strategy. Exotic breeds often possess high production potential and feed conversion efficiency, while local breeds typically exhibit better adaptation to local environmental conditions, including heat tolerance and disease resistance. Combining these breeds through cross-breeding can result in hybrid vigour (heterosis), enhancing overall performance and combining the desired traits effectively. This approach directly targets improved feed efficiency, heat tolerance, and chick quality.
- Feeding management strategies, like feeding twice a day, affect feed intake but do not fundamentally alter the birds' genetic capacity for feed efficiency or heat tolerance.
- Shifting to fish farming is an unrelated diversification strategy and does not address poultry farming goals.
- Relying solely on indigenous birds guarantees heat tolerance but may not achieve the desired levels of feed efficiency or rapid chick quality improvement compared to introducing beneficial traits via cross-breeding.
Therefore, cross-breeding offers a scientifically sound method to achieve the farmer's specific objectives.
Important Questions from Agriculture
How is permaculture farming different from conventional chemical farming?
1. Permaculture farming discourages monocultural practices but in conventional chemical farming, monoculture practices are predominant.
2. Conventional chemical farming can cause an increase in soil salinity but the occurrence of such phenomenon is not observed in permaculture farming.
3. Conventional chemical farming is easily possible in semi-arid regions but permaculture farming is not so easily possible in such regions.
4. Practice of mulching is very important in permaculture farming but not necessarily so conventional chemical farming
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With reference to ‘palm oil’, consider the following statements:
1. The palm oil tree is native to Southeast Asia.
2. Palm oil is a raw material for some industries producing lipstick and perfumes.
3. Palm oil can be used to produce biodiesel.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
In the context of India’s preparation for Climate-Smart Agriculture, consider the following statements :
1. The ‘Climate-Smart Village’ approach in India is a part of a project Jed by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), an international research programme.
2. The project of CCAFS is carried out under Consultative Group on ‘International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) headquartered in France.
3. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India is one of the CGIAR’s research centres.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and microirrigation equipment.
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Which of the following is/are the advantage /advantages of practising drip irrigation?
1. Reduction in weed
2. Reduction in soil salinity
3. Reduction in soil erosion
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