-Newsclick.in 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...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Arunachal Pradesh officials trek 9 hours to vaccinate 16 grazers -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu Tawang Deputy Commissioner leads team to inoculate villagers of Luguthang at 14,000 ft GUWAHATI: Away from home grazing their Yaks, 16 residents of Luguthang village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district could not make it to a COVID-19 vaccination camp organised on May 19 at Domstang, about five hours’ trek away. However, the vaccines reached the homes of the grazers at 14,000 ft above mean sea level on July 12, brought in...
More »Number of dead Yaks could be more than 500, herders tell Sikkim govt -Pramod Giri
-Hindustan Times Officials had said on Saturday that 300 Yaks died at around 15,000 ft in Mukuthang after families, which looked after them, came down to lower altitudes to save themselves from the cold, leaving the flocks behind. Siliguri: The number of Yaks that died of starvation in north Sikkim could be 500 or more, the authorities have said after talking to herders who graze the animals in Mukuthang Valley in the...
More »Trapped in snow, 300 Yaks starve to death in Sikkim -Pramod Giri
-Hindustan Times The district collector said about 10 to 15 Yaks die every year but admitted that this year’s death toll is higher than ever before. Siliguri: Around 300 Yaks have starved to death due to severe cold and excessive snowfall at an altitude of around 15,000 feet in north Sikkim, forcing authorities to rush medical teams to save the remaining animals. The administration has described the incident as catastrophic and unprecedented. To save...
More »MNREGA Is Not Making India's Workforce Less Skilled - Here's Why -Naman Garg and Aarushi Kalra
-TheWire.in MNREGA acts as a safety net not only against extreme poverty but also against the exploitation of workers. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MMNREGA) and its impact on the various aspects of the economy continues to be an active area of research. A piece by Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Yakshup Chopra and Prasanna L. Tantri titled “Is MGMNREGA destroying factory jobs? Disquieting data shows it discourages skill development”...
More »