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It is a simple indigenous pro-small farmer technology for preparation of bypass. Bypass fat is prepared from vegetable (palm) oil fatty acids (a by-product of the oil refinery industry) and technical grade calcium oxide/calcium hydroxide under specific conditions. The benefit of this supplement is that it keeps animals in a positive energy balance, increases their milk yield (up to 20 %) and also milk fat content.
This technology helps to produce fodder throughout the year with less space, less water, less fertilizer, and less electricity with the help of a controlled environment. It produces 600 kg green fodder maize in the area of 250 square feet with the cost of production of ₹ 4-4.5/kg.Daily feeding of 10 kg fresh hydroponic green fodder enhances the milk by about 12.5 %.Thus making dairy farming economically sustainable.
Shweta Kapali :- A cattle breed from Goa.This breed is registered with National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, Haryana. It is completely white coloured cattle found in North & South Goa districts of Goa. Daily milk yield ranges from 1.8 to 3.4 kg with an average of 2.8 kg & lactation milk yield from 250 to 650 kg. This cattle breed is suitable for coastal regions.
Novel Boar Semen Extender is a technology for pig semen preservation in a liquid state. It is a formulation of a chemical mixer in powder form and can be mixed with sterile distilled water and easy to use for diluting the pig semen. This extender can preserve pig semen at 15-17◦C for a minimum period of 3 days. The adoption of this technology is creating value and encouraging pig production.
It is a promising technology developed by improved strains of backyard poultry namely Gramapriya, Vanaraja, Srinidhi, karishibro which resembles native or desi chicken and adapt in diverse climatic conditions. It helps to earn additional income with negligible feed cost and aids in enhancing soil fertility in backyards (15 chickens produce 1-1.2kg of manure /day).
Goat is a meat producing animal in India. Due to its economic prospects, Scientific Goat farming helps to get better price for goats in commercial sale by implementing better practices which essentially consists of a good housing, breeding, feeding, reproductivity and health management.KokanKanyal, Telicherry/Malabari & Black Bengal aregoat breeds suitable for coastal regions.
Rabbit meat is nutritious and delicious like chicken meat. Rabbit rearing can be used as backyard rabbit farming or for intensive rabbit production /commercial rabbit rearing. Initial capital investment required for a rabbitry is minimum. Feeding rabbit is also simple and less expensive.
This fish feed is a sinking-type pellet suitable for rearing fish in community /aquarium tanks, FRP tanks, cement tanks and also for most of the freshwater ornamental fishes. It is prepared from locally available materials for feeding ornamental fishes which gives better growth performance and colour improvement in freshwater ornamental fishes.
This feed can be vacuum-packed and stored at room temperature for 5-6 months.
This Technology helps to forecast potential fishing zones where fish may be available based on the satellite imaginary and oceanic parameters like sea surface temperature (SST), Chorophyll, and wind direction. With the application of PFZ technology, the fishermen particularly the purse seine operators could reduce the fuel consumption; fish searched time, and human drudgery to an extent of 30-70 percent. With the PFZ advisory, the mechanized vessels can venture deeper waters of depth higher than 50 meters.
Normally by using this technology fishermen can obtain the catch of Mackerel, Oil sardine, Seer fish, Tuna, Horse mackerel, etc., which yield around 2-5 tons of catch compared to less than 2.0 tons of fish without using the PFZ advisory.
Backwater mussel culture is a low investment activity opens immense potential for resource and employment generation among coastal communities especially women and youth. It can stimulate a healthy socio-economic development in the area. Better post-harvest technologies can develop attractive value added products. Green mussel is widely distributed and found extensively around Kollam, Alapuzha, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod in Kerala and in small beds in Chilka lake, Vissakhapatnam, Kakinada, Chennai, Pondicherry, Caddalore, Mangalore, Karwar, Goa, Ratnagiri and in Gulf of Kutch.Mussels are cultured in raft and long line systems. A rectangular raft is made by bamboo poles with floats, from which ropes containing the young ones of mussel are suspended in water. Where ever the depth of water is less, the long line method is adopted.
The technology developed for fish culture in which compatible and non-competing fishes are cultured simultaneously through the utilization of different feeding zones (all the natural niches) from a pond to increase the total production from a unit area of water is known as Composite Fish Culture and it is the most advanced and popular culture technique with proper Site selection, Pond Management and Post stocking techniques.
An artificial fish habitat (AFH) is a fabricated, underwater structure, typically built for promoting aquatic life in areas of generally featureless bottom. AFH is also defined as one or more objects of natural or human origin deployed purposefully onto the seafloor to trigger physical, biological or socio-economic processes related to living marine resources. It is constructed or deployed on the seabed to emulate some functions of a natural reef such as protecting, regenerating, concentrating, and/or enhancing populations of living marine resources and their habitats, which includes the promotion of research, recreational and educational opportunities of the area. The artificial fish habitats are used to provide refuges and breeding sites for fish in the coastal region. It is of oval shape made of RCC with dimensions of 0.5 m diameter and 0.65 m height and, hole size: 8-10 cm. A total of 35 fish species of commercial and ornamental purposes were aggregated in the AFHs and these habitats can become sites for recreational diving, scuba diving and recreational fishing.
Mud crab of genus Scylla is an important species for farming in coastal waters. Breeding of mud crab is continuous and major spawning occurs during May to October. Crab seed are available in all sizes.
Mud crab fattening is carried out in pounds (0.1 to 0.5 ha of 1.5m depth) cages and pens. Mud crabs are fed with trash fish and later harvested as its size reaches of approx. 300-400 g.The expected production per crop for an area of 0.1 ha. is around 250 kg.
