Prospects of increasing animal products in Hazara Pre-Investment Forestry Project
Prospects of increasing animal products in Hazara Pre-Investment Forestry Project
Sultan Maqsood Khan
ABSTRACT
At present there are 371 thousand animal units in Hazara
Per-investment Forestry Project area, which require 948
thousand tones of air dry forage annually against the
present production of only 547 thousand tones from
cropland, rangeland and forests combined. The production
of Shaftal can be increased by 90 thousand tones if the
local variety is replaced with improved variety and
fertilized. Planting of summer legumes in 10 per cant of
the cultivated land and alfalfa under apple trees can
increase the forage production by 772 and 40 thousand tones respectively. Replacement of undesirable forage
species on field boundaries and range fertilization can
further increase for age production by 27 and 128
thousand tones respectively. In this way the annual
forage production can be increased to 1604 thousand
tones and the animal units to 628 thousand. At the
present level of efficiency of conversion of feed to
animal products, they can be increased 2.9 times by
increasing their feed production through better
management.
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March 1981
Vol. 31, Iss. 1
