Enhancing Green Fodder Production
- Green fodder is the most cost-effective source of nutrients for dairy animals and its inclusion in adequate quantities in rations economizes the cost of milk production.
- Wide gap in availability of green fodder is primarily due to low productivity of green fodder, poor availability of quality fodder seeds and lack of awareness among farmers on good agronomic practices and conservation technologies.
- NDDB maintains a fodder demonstration unit for showcasing improved varieties of fodder crops, their cultivation and conservation practices.
- NDDB provides technical support to dairy cooperatives in arranging breeder seed of improved fodder crop varieties, production of good quality seeds, establishment of seed processing plants.
- Imparting training to technical manpower of dairy cooperatives on fodder production, conservation and its enrichment.
- Development of community fodder farms on Gauchar/Panchayati/ common land helps in catering the green fodder needs of small and marginal farmers.
- NDDB has set up a fodder unit on Panchayat land, involving village dairy cooperative society, for perennial fodder production at Muzkuva village in Anand district.
Enhancing Green Fodder Production
- Green fodder is the most cost-effective source of nutrients for dairy animals and its inclusion in adequate quantities in rations economizes the cost of milk production.
- Wide gap in availability of green fodder is primarily due to low productivity of green fodder, poor availability of quality fodder seeds and lack of awareness among farmers on good agronomic practices and conservation technologies.
- NDDB maintains a fodder demonstration unit for showcasing improved varieties of fodder crops, their cultivation and conservation practices.
- NDDB provides technical support to dairy cooperatives in arranging breeder seed of improved fodder crop varieties, production of good quality seeds, establishment of seed processing plants.
- Imparting training to technical manpower of dairy cooperatives on fodder production, conservation and its enrichment.
- Development of community fodder farms on Gauchar/Panchayati/ common land helps in catering the green fodder needs of small and marginal farmers.
- NDDB has set up a fodder unit on Panchayat land, involving village dairy cooperative society, for perennial fodder production at Muzkuva village in Anand district.
