Climate Change and Stress Management : Sheep and Goat Production

 Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Stress management in small ruminants for sustainable production/S.A. Karim and M.K. Tripathi. 2. Global climate change and diseases of small ruminants/M.C. Sharma, Puneet Kumar and Rupasi Tiwari. 3. Water-related disasters in Asia context : risk management and environmental response--concern to animal's for human sustainability/Anil K. Gupta, Sreeja S. Nair and Mohammed Yunus. 4. Influence of climate change on mineral uptake in plants and its effect in livestock/K.T. Sampath, N.K.S. Gowda and D.T. Pal. 5. Forage production and feeding plan for small ruminants during scarcity in drought prone region/N.V. Patil and A.K. Patel. 6. Feeding and management strategies for small ruminants during stressful conditions of drought/R.C. Jakhmola. 7. Mitigation of enteric methane (greenhouse gas) emission for eco-friendly and economic small ruminant production/D.N. Kamra. 8. Feeding management of small ruminants in cold climates of temperate region/A. Sahoo. 9. Strategies of enhancing forage production in dry zones of India/A.K. Misra and K.A. Singh. 10. Methane emission by sheep and goats, its effect on global warming and ameliorative measures/Raghavendra Bhatta, C.S. Prasad and K.T. Sampath. 11. Stress factors for small ruminants under field existence and strategies for their amelioration/A.K. Shinde. 12. Existing feed resources and feeding practices of small ruminants with reference to Rajasthan/S.K. Sankhyan and R.S. Bhatt. 13. Shelter management for sheep and goats for mitigating climatic stress/R.P. Misra, S.P. Singh and N. Ramachandran. 14. Effect of environment stress on animal productivity and its amelioration through shelter management/A.K. Patel. 15. Adaptation of sheep and goats to cold arid climates/M.A. Kirmani, N.A. Ganai, and K.A. Shah. 16. Physiological adaption of sheep to hot environmental conditions with special reference to climate change/S.M.K. Naqvi and V. Sejian. 17. Effect of climatic, thermal and nutritional stresses on reproduction on goats/A.K. Goel and N. Ramachandran. 18. Physiological adaptation of goats to climate change/Puneet Kumar. 19. Stress factors influencing preservation of Ram Semen: approaches for ameliorating their adverse consequences/Anil Joshi, Davendera Kumar and S.M.K. Daqvi. 20. Impact of body condition score on productive and reproductive capability of sheep/V.P. Maurya, V. Sejian and S.M.K. Naqvi. 21. Development and dissemination of the NARI Suwarna strain of Deccani sheep: genetic improvement of production performance while maintaining adaptability/C. Nimbkar, P.M. Ghalsasi and B.V. Nimbkar. 22. Genetics of stress resistance and its application in sheep breeding/A.L. Arora, Ved Prakash and L.L.L. Prince. 23. Breeding strategies for sustainable livelihood, conservation and improvement of small ruminants vis-a-vis global plan of action for animal genetic resources/S.K. Singh. 24. Iranian sheep and goat industry at a glance/Reza Valizadeh. 25. Exploration of genetic to diseases for improving small ruminant production/D. Singh and C.P. Swarnkar. 26. Broiler rabbit production under prevailing climate change/Rajeev Gulyani. 27. Angora wool production in the country under changing climate and market/S.R. Sharma and S.A. Karim. 28. Impact of climate and environmental change on animal diseases and production/S.C. Dubey and A.K. Shinde. 29. Newer approaches of parasitic control for reducing stresses in animals and farmers/P.K. Sanyal. 30. Biotic and abiotic stresses and small ruminant diseases/V.S. Vihan, K. Gururaj and Ashok Kumar. 31. Changing disease patterns in small ruminants vis-a-vis climate change/R.K. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjay Barua and Rajender Kumar. 32. Animal borne diseases: human health and environmental concern/B.N. Tripathi, S.K. Dixit and G.G. Sonawane. 33. Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis: a predominant endemic biotic stress affecting growth, development and productivity in domestic ruminants/S.V. Singh, P.K. Singh, A. Kumar and A.V. Singh. 34. Transportation and slaughter stresses and their effect on meat yield and quality/N. Kondaiah and S. Vaithiyanathan. 35. Meat production, export potential and SPS measures/M.K. Agnihotri. 36. Safety and quality assurance in red meat processing and marketing chains/A.R. Sen and M. Muthukumar. 37. Present status and future prospectus of organic farming in small ruminant production/Vishnu Sharma and Sanjita Sharma. 38. Small ruminant production and sustainable rural livelihood/Shalander Kumar, K. Kareemulla and B. Venkateswarlu. 39. Impact of climate change on socio-economic status of small ruminant farmers/Smita Sirohi and Suresh A. 40. Production and marketing of small ruminant fibre and meat in India--an overview/Suresh A. and D.C. Gupta. 41. Wool and chemical processing in carpet perspective/K.K. Goswami and R.K. Malik. 42. Advances in engineering of carpet yarn/S.M. Ishtiaque, Kushal Sen and Ajay Kumar. 43. Angora : the majestic fibre of hills/Alka Goel and Mansi Agrawal. 44. Industrial application of wool blended non-woven felt/D.B. Shakyawar and N.P. Gupta. 45. Advances in Pashmina wool processing value addition/Sarfaraz A. Wani, Asif H. Sofi and D.B. Shakyawar.

"Sheep and goat rearing is a traditional occupation of small, marginal farmers and landless laborers in semiarid, arid, hilly and mountain regions of the country, inhospitable to conventional crop cultivation. Small ruminants produce food and fiber at relatively low cost from feed materials from land that often cannot be used for conventional crop production,. Higher production efficiency of the two species is not only due to their ability to sustain on sparse vegetation of degraded rangeland and efficient utilization of top feed resources but also early puberty, short gestation period, high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, quality meat, milk and carpet wool production and good marketability.

Small ruminants are primarily raised on grazing resources under extensive range management in different parts of the country. They are exposed to wide range of stresses under existence mainly thermal, nutritional, exercise, management, disease, predation etc. These stresses redistribute the body resources including protein and energy at the cost of decreases growth, reproduction, production and health. In prevailing situation of progressive shrinkage of grazing resources, under nourishment, climate change reflected in low precipitation, feed and water scarcity, inhumane transportation, handling and slaughter practices, frequent drought and famine, long distance migration, poor en route shelter, early disposal of lambs and distress sale of animals are some of the important issues causing stresses on the small ruminants and affecting their productions.

Further there is need to address the small ruminant production under the present scenario of climate change and crunch in the feed resources which is having adverse effect on production, reproduction and health status.

The present book is outcomes of the series of lectures delivered by the experts during the National Seminar on the basis of their vast experience of the subject and recent advances on stress management on small ruminant production and product processing, It covers broad areas on small ruminant nutrition, bredding reproduction health marketing processing and value addition with reference to climate change and stress management."