Animal Nutrition

As a result of climate change, increasing demand for livestock products such as milk, meat and by-products like hides, skins and manure, dairy farmers in the cattle corridor districts with limited grazing land are being sensitized and trained in rangeland rehabilitation technologies.

With experience in quality pasture seed production, pasture establishment, management and utilization, DFK started forage demonstration gardens to train dairy farmers in the cattle corridor and to replace unpalatable natural pastures and invisible weeds with improved pasture plots, over sowing to boost fodder availability of pasture grasses such as Signal grass, Napier grass, Rhodes grass, Guinea grass and pasture legumes like Greenleaf Desmoduim, Centrosema seed, Siratro , Lablab, Alfalfa and multipurpose trees to reduce grazing pressure and environmental degradation.