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Livestock

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As per the present report about 1124 Open Access Articles, 3304 Conference Proceedings, 4 upcoming conferences, 18 Journals and 671 National symposiums are being published related to livestock.

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor. Agricultural animals have constantly made a real commitment to the welfare of human social orders by giving sustenance, shelter, fuel, manure and different products and services. They are a renewable asset, and use an alternate renewable asset, plants, to create these items and administrations.

In some developing nations, the compost can't be used as manure yet is dried as a source of fuel. Food is by a long shot, the most imperative commitment of agrarian creature, despite the fact that they rank well behind plants altogether amount of sustenance supplied. Plants supply in excess of 80 percent of the aggregate calories expended on the planet. Creatures are a more imperative wellspring of protein than they are of calories, supplying one-third of the protein expended on the planet. Meat, drain and fish are about equivalent wellsprings of creature protein, supplying, separately, 35%, 34% and 27% of the world supply of aggregate protein.

It is true that it is more efficient for humans to eat plant products directly rather than to allow animals to convert them to human food. At best, animals only produce one pound or less of human food for each three pounds of plants eaten. However, this inefficiency only applies to those plants and plant products that the human can utilize. The fact is that over two-thirds of the feed fed to animals consists of substances that are either undesirable or completely unsuited for human food. Thus, by their ability to convert inedible plant materials to human food, animals not only compete with the human rather they aid greatly in improving both the quantity and the quality of the diets of human societies.

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Scope and Importance:
Livestock play a vital role in the agricultural and rural economies of the developing world. Not only do they produce food directly, they also provide key inputs to crop agriculture. Most farms in the developing world are too small to justify owning or using a tractor, and the alternatives are animal power or human labor.

For many small holder farmers, livestock are the only ready source of cash to buy inputs for crop production - seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Livestock income also goes towards buying things the farmers cannot make for themselves. And that includes paying for school fees, medicine and taxes. Income from cropping is highly seasonal. In contrast, small stock, with their high rates of reproduction and growth, can provide a regular source of income from sales. Larger animals such as cattle are a capital reserve, built up in good times to be used when crops are poor or when the family is facing large expenses such as the cost of a wedding or a hospital bill.

Animals are a crucial link in nutrient cycles, returning nutrients to the soil in forms that plants can readily use. They can bring nutrients from pasture and rangeland and concentrate them on crop land through their manure and urine. The animal manure and urine that people in the developed world see as pollutants are vital fertilizers in the developing world. Few small holders can afford enough mineral fertilizers. Animals give farmers a reason to plant legumes as pastures and cover crops that protect the soil and restore its structure and fertility. According to a Winrock report in 1992, `The greatest threat to the African rangelands comes from human populations and expansion of cultivation. There is no solid evidence linking livestock to this process desertification.

Increasing the productivity of livestock systems and mixed crop-livestock systems motivates farmers to protect their rangelands and use them sustainably for raising livestock rather than putting them to the plough.
Productive livestock can add value to `idle' land. Already, in many parts of the world mixed crop-livestock systems are the norm, but the importance of the livestock component has been overlooked. Even the language we use tends to reinforce this. When we talk about the non-grain parts of cereal crops, we tend to use terms like crop residues or by-products. Yet in many farming systems, such as the barley-sheep system of the drier parts of West Asia and North Africa and the tef-based system in the Ethiopian highlands, the farmers value these by-products as much as, if not more, than the grain. `Improved' varieties or production packages that overlook the feeding value of these `residues' will find little favor with the majority of farmers.

Intensive animal production in the developed world uses resources that could serve direct human uses - grain that could be eaten by people, land that could produce food crops, electricity that could illuminate and heat people's homes. But in the developing world livestock add value to resources that would otherwise go to waste. Marginal land that cannot and indeed should not be ploughed; straw, stovers, groundnut haulm, household wastes, all go to feeding livestock in smallholder systems. Cassava peel, for example, feeds goats in humid West Africa. In Syria farmers allow weeds to grow in their cereal fields and then `rogue' them to feed to their sheep. The weeds slightly reduce cereal grain yields, but the productivity of the system as a whole is higher than if they sprayed herbicides to control the weeds. And the environment is protected.

The research task facing the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its research partners is to develop ways of managing livestock that maximize the benefits to smallholders while minimizing any harm livestock can inflict on the environment. Well-managed, the benefits to smallholders of keeping livestock are overwhelming.

Statistics:
Livestock production performance has been more impressive than that of food grain production. Milk, egg, meat, and fish showed impressive growth rates of 5 to 10%. The minimum targeted growth rate for attaining self sufficiency in milk, fish, meat and egg by 2001 AD is 5.54, 6.25, and 5.54 % per annum respectively. Livestock represents the only way in which the natural vegetation that covers large parts of India can be converted in to products that can be used by man.

Although food availability has increased along with the growing human population over the last 30 years, there are still 800 million people suffering from malnutrition. This problem is not only the result of insufficient food production and inadequate distribution, but also of the financial inability of the poor to purchase food of reasonable quality in adequate quantities to satisfy their needs Livestock production constitutes a very important component of the agricultural economy of developing countries, a contribution that goes beyond direct food production to include multipurpose uses, such as skins, fibre, fertilizer and fuel, as well as capital accumulation. Furthermore, livestock are closely linked to the social and cultural lives of several million resource-poor farmers for whom animal ownership ensures varying degrees of sustainable farming and economic stability.

Livestock are important contributors to total food production. Moreover, their contribution increases at a higher rate than that of cereals. Recent increases in livestock products appear to be even more spectacular than those achieved for cereals from the green revolution. Most notably, egg production has increased by 331 percent over the last two decades, compared with 127 percent for meat production, 78 percent for cereals and 113 percent for fish (equivalent to 58 percent of that of meat production).

List of Conferences:

• 2nd Livestock Nutrition Conference  July 21-22, 2016 Brisbane, Australia

• Dairy Conference  June 30-July 02, 2016 New Orleans, USA

• 3rd Veterinary Conference  August 18-20, 2016 London, UK

• 4th Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference 
September 29-October 01, 2016 London, United Kingdom

• 7th Agriculture and Horticulture Conference
October 17-19, 2016 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Steps to Sustainable Livestock 12th-15th January 2016 Bristol, UK

• 6th Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference (GGAA2016)
14 to 18 February 2016, Melbourne, Australia

• International Livestock Conference And Expo 23rd Annual Convention of ISAPM
January 28-31 2016, Hyderabad, India

• International Life Sciences Institute Annual Meeting
January 22-27, 2016, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

• International Conference on Global Food Security
March 7-8, 2016, Florida, USA

• International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting
July 31-August 3, 2016 St. Louis, Missouri, USA

• 2016 International Conference on Food Studies - A Common Ground Conference
October 12-13, 2016, Berkeley, CA, USA

• Fi Europe - Food Ingredients Europe December 1-3, 2015 Paris, France

• SIAL Middle East 2015, December 7-9, 2015, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• 2nd International Conference on Food Properties (ICFP2016)
May 29 - June 2, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand

• International Symposium on the Properties of Water
June 26-29, 2016 Lausanne, Switzerland

• 4th International Conference on Food Oral Processing
July 3-6, 2016 Lausanne, Switzerland

• International Conference on Feed Efficiency in Swine - ICFES 2015, USA

• International Conference Russian Livestock and Poultry in the New Environmental, Russia

• 12^th International Conference on Goats, Turkey

• 24^th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress, Ireland

• X International Rangeland Congress, Canada

• Precision Dairy Farming, Netherlands

Relevant societies and associations:
• European Federation of Animal Science, Italy
• Michigan Jr. Livestock Society, USA
• New Forest Livestock Society, UK
• Red Poll Cattle Society, UK
• British Charolais Cattle Society, UK
• Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, Scotland
• Dexter Cattle Society, UK
• National Cattlemen's Beef Association, USA
• Holstein Association, USA The Rare Poultry Society, UK
• British Veterinary Poultry Association, UK
• Dyfed Poultry Society, UK
• Surrey Poultry Society, UK
• Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USA • Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, Australia
• NRA, Institut National de la Recherché Agronomique, France
• Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Australia
• Australia Roslin Institute, Scotland
• Animal Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USA
• Alabama Veterinary Medical Association, USA
• Amercian Society of Animal Science, USA
• American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture, USA
• American Academy of Veterinary Informatics, USA
• American Academy of Veterinary Medical Acupuncture (AAVMA), USA
• American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, USA
• American Animal Hospital Association, USA
• American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), USA
• American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, USA
• American Association of Bovine Practitioners, USA

List of companies:
• Tyson Foods, Inc., USA
• Pilgrim’s, USA
• New Hope Group, China
• Brasil Foods, Brazil
• Land O'Lakes Purina, USA
• Charoen Pokphand (CP Group), Thailand
• Perdue Farms, USA ADM Alliance Nutrition, USA
• Kent Nutrition Group, USA
• RK Emu Farms, India
• Able Oaks Ranch, USA
• Buffalo Gal, USA
• DK-USA Sporthorse, LLC, USA
• Cargill Feed, USA
• Pilgrim’s, USA
• Cargill, USA
• New Hope Group, China
• Brasil Foods, Brazil
• Land O'Lakes Purina, USA
• Charoen Pokphand (CP Group), Thailand
• Perdue Farms, USA
• Livestock Marketing Association,USA
• The Bison Ranch, USA

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This page was last updated on April 20, 2024