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    Goat Production and Supply Chain Management in the Tropics

    By Pramod Kumar Rout, Ashok Kumar and Basanta Kumara Behera

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    This book is a practical manual for goat production systems covering: breeding and selection, feeding based on available crops and resources, and targeted preventative health care for increased productivity and income. It outlines best practice and strategies for setting up a farm, overcoming challenges, increasing milk and meat quality, obtaining sustainability, reducing environmental pollution, optimising climatic conditions and tapping into local know-how. In addition, the book details developing region-specific data for effective decision making and better management, as well as how to run a developmental project to empower stake holders for higher production, support innovation, and analyse the supply chain for better product quality and marketing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCAB International
    Release dateJan 8, 2020
    ISBN9781789240153
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    Goat Production and Supply Chain Management in the Tropics
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    Pramod Kumar Rout

    Pramod Kumar Rout is a veterinary graduate and completed a doctoral degree in animal genetics and breeding from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, UP, India. He specialises in the genetics of disease resistance. He has also worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, as a visiting scientist at the University of Arizona, USA and in the Genetics and Genomics Division at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK. He is a researcher in the field of genetic improvement of livestock and using molecular genetics to improve selection. He also coordinates research projects on goat improvement in India. His research contributions centre around livestock genetic diversity, conservation of animal genetic resources, genetics of disease resistance and heat stress regulation in livestock, and milk genomics. He has also worked in the conservation of endangered goat species and has 20 years' experience in managing field-based projects.

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