Background:
Basal feeds of livestock in mixed farming systems depend on the cropping system specific to each agro-ecological zone. The feeding of poor-quality roughages (wheat & paddy straw and sugarcane tops) with little bit of imbalanced supplements to cattle and buffaloes in the Indo-Gangetic plains of Northern India results in mineral imbalances and related specific deficiency disorders, which primarily contribute to their poor reproduction and production performance:
Technology Details:
The requirement of minerals may vary in different agro-ecological zones and sometime excess minerals may become toxic. The developed mineral supplement contains only those essential minerals, which are deficient due to long term feeding of wheat/paddy straws and sugarcane tops as major roughage.