Improvement in Food Resources Notes

• Crops can be destroyed due to the pest on field and spoilage during storage. Thus the crop protection management is required to prevent the crop in two ways: pre-harvesting and post harvesting management.

Pre-harvest crop protection:

• Animal husbandry, also known as animal farming, is defined as the branch of agriculture that deals with the scientific management of livestock. It includes feeding, breeding and disease control of domestic animals that are used to fulfill basic human needs.
• Different animals that are raised in animal husbandry are cattle, goat, sheep, poultry, fish, bees etc.

• Cattle farming or cattle husbandry is related to the raising of cattle for different purposes.

Dairy/Milch Animals:

• Animals that are raised in cattle husbandry for the production of milk are known as milch or dairy animals. These include the female organisms.

Examples: Cows, Buffaloes, Camel, Goat, Sheep etc.