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
Which one of the following terms describes the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land?
Directions: The following 05 (Five) items consist of two statements, Statement I and Statement II. Examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the code given below:
Statement I: India has a wide variation in population density.
Statement II: Factors like agricultural productivity and the history of the settlement have greatly influenced the population density pattern in India.
Which of the following are the characteristics of organic farming?
1. Use of chemical fertilizers to improve soil fertility.
2. Frequent decomposing and fallowing.
3. Use of herbs to control pests.
4. Higher productivity per hectare.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
A farmer in a semi-arid area claims that his farming practice is very environment friendly. Which of the following practices on his farm can justify his claim?
1. Planning a tree belt.
2. Practising crop rotation.
3. Carrying out a large scale irrigation system
4. Using organic fertilizers.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Which of the following statements about the Livestock sector in India is/are correct?
1. Livestock contributed about 25 per cent of gross value added in agriculture.
2. It provides self-employment to a large segment of the population
3. The rapid growth of the livestock sector can be egalitarian inclusive
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
