Animal Production & Health 

Silvipasture 

Under rainfed South Saurashtra Agro-climatic condition, reseeded and sown pastures comprising of legumes Stylosanthes hamata and scabra and grasses Cenchrus ciliaris (Anjan) and Dicanthium coricosum (Shaniyar) yielded 1.26 and 2.78 tones higher dry matter per hectare, respectively, over natural pasture, resulting in higher net economic gain in terms of pasture and protein yield. Patanwadi lambs grazing on sown pasture had higher growth rate and significantly lower age at first lambing in comparison to natural pasture accruing higher economic return to farmers. 

Animal Feed

Jowar straw and groundnut gotar in 70:30 ratio instead of Jowar straw alone can meet the daily maintenance need of Gir bullocks.

Aforestation

Under rainfed agro-climatic situation of South Saurashtra, tree species Azadirechta indica, Acacia nilotica, Ziziphus mauritiana and Tectona grandis have fairly good survival and growth rate on barren, degraded and wasteland. Therefore, these tree species can be planted to conserve, afforestate and improve such land. 

Milk replacer

Milk replacer containing the following ingredients is useful to replace 50 per cent of whole milk for feeding weaned Gir calves, without any adverse effect on body growth. Ingredient composition for one kg milk replacer is  wheat flour -100g, soybean meal, 120g, groundnut cake meal - 400g, skim milk powder-130g, coconut oil-100g, butyric acid- 3g, molasses/jaggary-65  % - 100g, mineral mixture - 32g and citric acid- 15g.