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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Livestock Sector in India Has Shown Remarkable Resilience, Expert Says -Rosamma Thomas

Livestock Sector in India Has Shown Remarkable Resilience, Expert Says -Rosamma Thomas

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published Published on Apr 15, 2022   modified Modified on Apr 17, 2022

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India produces 22% of the world’s total milk production; India is also the largest sheep and goat meat exporter. It is among the largest exporters of bovine meat too. There must be something that livestock producers in India have got right, argues Dr Kohler-Rollefson.

On April 11, 2022, researcher Dr Ilse Kohler Rollefson, who has long worked among the camel herders of Rajasthan, delivered the keynote address at the National Livestock Conference in Visakhapatnam during the 28th annual convention of the Indian Society of Animal Production and Management. 

Her presentation was titled ‘Rethinking Animal Science: To make it fit for the 21st century. What she pointed to right at the outset was the phenomenal success of small livestock breeders, who made India the world’s largest milk producer, even though the country is only seventh-largest when it comes to landmass, with a high population density.

India produces 22% of the world’s total milk production; India is also the largest sheep and goat meat exporter. It is among the largest exporters of bovine meat too. There must be something that livestock producers in India have got right, argued Dr Kohler-Rollefson.

Most of India’s livestock is mobile, kept in long-distance transhumant or village-bound pastoralist systems. India’s pastoralist producers raised cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camel, pigs, yaks, ducks, donkeys, horses, and guinea fowl. There are at least 46 different communities of livestock breeders, who are estimated to be about 10% of the country’s total population.

In his book Agrarian Conquest, historian Neeladri Bhattacharya shows that pastoralists were a much-valued part of rural life in pre-colonial India, deeply entrenched in a reciprocal relationship with farmers. Pastoralists provided the animals for farm work, and the herds that were penned in farmlands left behind valued organic manure. The services of the pastoralists were rewarded with rations of food grains from farmers

Villages had common grazing grounds or sacred groves that the pastoralists could use; even open land that was part of the landscape served a useful purpose. The livestock cycled nutrients from uncultivated lands to farmers’ fields.

However, the colonial government was poorly educated about the richness of these interrelationships and saw uncultivated land as a “wasteland”. “Nature was an enemy that had to be conquered and transformed into orderly, fenced farms, preferably wheat fields,” said Dr Kohler-Rollefson. This worldview caused the colonial government to acquire and cultivate lands that were earlier left fallow or uncultivated.

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