Improvement of rural livelihood through rearing of Chara-Chemballi ducks in Assam

Alterations in serum constituents of different duck varieties of Assam in healthy and duck plague out break

“…In duck rearing the diseases of importance are duck plague, pasteurellosis and aflatoxicosis. The agro-climatic condition with marshy and waterlogged areas prevailing throughout the state provides a very congenial environment for rearing ducks in Assam (Kalita et al, 2009 [10] ; Deka et al, 2014 [6] ). Serum constituents of ducks provide valuable information for evaluation of health status, immunity which reflects many metabolic alterations of organs and tissues.…”

Serum enzyme activities in different varieties of Duck of Assam in healthy and duck plague out break

“…The Annual egg production per duck (Pati) is 70-95 eggs (Kalita et al, 2009) [9] . The agro-climatic condition of Assam is a very congenial for duck rearing (Kalita et al, 2009; Deka et al, 2014) [9,4] . Serum/plasma enzyme activity is primarily increase due to cellular injury or necrosis and help to localize any disease processes to a particular cell type (Irizaary-Rovira, 2004) [7] .…”

A Study on Empowerment of Rural Women through Backyard Poultry in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh

“…It is observed that there is always shortage of money in the hands of rural farm women. Women are primarily responsible for the care and management of the bird under backyard poultry systems (Deka et al, 2014). May be it is the only resource which is completely owned and controlled by women from the moment of selection of the bird to sales/purchase and control over the income earned from the birds (Ramdas, 2009 andAnthra, 2000).…”