Animal Husbandry and Fisheries
Learning about the management of livestock and fish for food production.
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Effective animal husbandry includes proper feeding, housing, breeding selection, and disease control to improve livestock productivity and health — for example, cross-breeding local cattle with high-yielding foreign breeds has significantly increased milk production in India, a movement often called the White Revolution. Aquaculture, a rapidly growing sector, allows controlled breeding of fish in ponds or tanks, reducing pressure on wild fish populations while meeting growing demand for protein-rich food.
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• Animal husbandry: scientific management/breeding of livestock for milk, meat, eggs, wool.
• Fisheries include capture fisheries (natural water bodies) and aquaculture (controlled farming).
• Cross-breeding local and foreign cattle breeds boosted India's milk production (the White Revolution).
• Aquaculture reduces pressure on wild fish populations while meeting food demand.