Degradation of Arid Rangelands in Thar Desert, India: A Review

Improved technologies for sustaining productivity and profitability of sheep in India-A Review

“…The productivity of rangelands and pasture lands were increased in the tune of 5 to 6 time higher than natural grazing lands. Tewari and Arya (2005) reported an increase of 639% in forage yield over control by adopting moisture conservation technique and increase in forage yield was recorded in the range of 30 to 122% in "poor" and 29 to 107% in "fair" class rangelands after 3-5 years of reseeding.…”

“…The shepherds have reported area under grazing lands is reducing drastically over the years and productivity of grazing lands declined due to improved strains of grass and legumes are becoming vanished from grazing lands resulted decrease in availability of good quality fodder to sheep during most of the season. Tewari and Arya (2005) reported grazing pressures are crossing the recommended stocking rates; the pressure was 0.87 ACU ha −1 in 1981 which increased to 1.02 ACU ha −1 ha in 2001 against the optimum desirable density of 0.2 Page46 erosion; shifting cultivation; urbanization increased, construction of roads and industries on grazing and community lands; soil degradation leads to reduction in ground water resource and no wasteland management programme low gestation period of pasture /rangeland these were the main factors for responsible for decreasing productivity of pasture and rangelands in India. …”

Parasitism in Goats: Husbandry Management, Range Management, Gut Immunity and Therapeutics

“…Rangeland is an exclusive source of nutritious browse and graze species of plants in the regions where there is limited or no alternative feed resource available [1]. In arid and semiarid regions of the world where there is scarcity of water and uncertainty of precipitation, the shortage of feed for small ruminants becomes eminent.…”

A Participatory GIS Approach for Assessing Land Suitability for Rainwater Harvesting in an Arid Rangeland Environment

“…These areas support a large portion of the world's population and are increasingly used for agricultural production to satisfy the increased food demand of the growing population (Reynolds and Smith, 2007;Tewari andRanjana, 2005, FAO, 1983). The low and highly variable rainfall is often inadequate for economic crop production; therefore, water is the most limiting resource to improve agricultural production Tsubo et al, 2005).…”