Feeding Strategy For Improving Dairy Cattle Productivity In Small Holder Farm In Bangladesh

Dairy animal rearing is an inseparable and integrated part of smallholder subsistence farming system. Dairy cattle production in the country is characterized by low productivity levels due mainly to genetic and nutritional constraints. Unless feeding management is improved these animals may be limited to fully express their potential genetic superiority. It is fundamental approach to provide good quality diets to dairy cattle in sufficient amount to maximize production. Dairying provides women with a regular daily income vital to household good security and family well being. Quantitative and qualitative shortage of feeds and fodder affects the performance of milking animal. Local cows yield on average 1.5 Lit. milk per day against 5-8 Lit. in cross bred cows, require better feeding mainly concentrates, which is not available to the farmers at the affordable prices. But income of farmers can be increased up to two fold (Tk.58 vs 115) by rearing cross bred cows. Since feed cost is becoming the most important factor in livestock production, increasing self sufficiency in feed production will be an important factor in future development programs. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjas.v38i1-2.9914 BJAS 2009; 38(1-2): 67-85

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Monitoring Health Parameters of Elders to Support Independent Living and Improve Their Quality of Life

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21020517 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 517

Author(s):

Ilia Adami ◽

Michalis Foukarakis ◽

Stavroula Ntoa ◽

Nikolaos Partarakis ◽

Nikolaos Stefanakis ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Independent Living ◽

Elderly Population ◽

Well Being ◽

The Elderly ◽

Chronic Illnesses ◽

Age Related ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Health And Well Being

Improving the well-being and quality of life of the elderly population is closely related to assisting them to effectively manage age-related conditions such as chronic illnesses and anxiety, and to maintain their independence and self-sufficiency as much as possible. This paper presents the design, architecture and implementation structure of an adaptive system for monitoring the health and well-being of the elderly. The system was designed following best practices of the Human-Centred Design approach involving representative end-users from the early stages.

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(A287) Animal Health in Disasters: Why does it Matter?

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x11003049 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S1) ◽

pp. s96-s96

Author(s):

P. Hollier

Keyword(s):

Developing Country ◽

Vulnerable Populations ◽

Animal Health ◽

Policy Research ◽

Well Being ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

Development Programs ◽

Economic Stability ◽

Animal Agriculture ◽

Response And Recovery

Animal production is an important component to economic stability and food security in developing country. Economic development programs have targeted agriculture in developing country as a means of decreasing poverty and empowering vulnerable populations throughout much of the developing world. Disasters due to natural and man-made hazards that impact animal agriculture have a disproportionate impact on the rural poor and vulnerable populations affecting the economic well being and health of the greater population. Protection of livelihoods dependent on animal agriculture is important to consider in community resilience and humanitarian assistance activities that range from capacity building through response and recovery. In order to meet the challenges of the next generation of global health threats, policy, research, and practice must adopt a new cross-cutting approach that targets the human-animal-ecologic interface taking into account political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors.

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Voluntary simplicity: a content analysis of consumer comments

Journal of Consumer Marketing ◽

10.1108/jcm-04-2020-3749 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Petek Tosun ◽

Selime Sezgin

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Word Frequency ◽

Frequency Analysis ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Well Being ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Content Type ◽

Less Is More ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Meaningful Experiences

Purpose The voluntary simplification (VS) movement has stemmed from Western societies and gained momentum in the 1980s, but the trend has failed to become a primary perspective for most consumers. The accompanying concepts of conscious consumption, minimalism and accepting that sometimes “less is more” are still vivid in the digital era. The purpose of this study is to provide a deep and recent understanding of the consumer comments about minimalism in Turkey and examine their associations with the prominent themes in the VS literature. Design/methodology/approach Consumer comments posted on online platforms were analyzed by content analysis and word frequency analysis. Findings Consumer comments were in parallel to the themes in the VS literature and were classified under personal growth, material simplicity, sustainability, proper technology usage and self-sufficiency categories. Personal growth, material simplicity and sustainability were the first three dimensions mentioned. The prominent sub-themes that emerge from data were psychological well-being, inner peace, freedom, meaningful experiences and getting rid of belongings. A word frequency analysis pointed out that “life” and “owning” were the evident words in the personal growth category, “purchasing things” were mostly mentioned in the material simplicity category and “plastic litter” and “excessive consumption” were the prominent concerns in the sustainability category. Originality/value VS required further research in different national contexts. Besides, an analysis of the dimensions of VS was needed. This study contributes by providing recent and rich findings from a developing country, connecting them with the VS themes in the literature and suggesting a conceptual framework enriched by sub-themes that emerged from data.

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Development of dairy cattle breeding in the Tambov region

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/845/1/012044 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 845 (1) ◽

pp. 012044

Author(s):

A V Nikitin ◽

O Yu Antsiferova ◽

A N Fedotov

Keyword(s):

Dairy Cattle ◽

Cattle Breeding ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Production Sector ◽

Agricultural Enterprises ◽

Low Intensity ◽

Medical Standards ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Collective Farming ◽

Dairy Cattle Breeding

Abstract The article shows that dairy farming is one of the most dynamically developing branches of agriculture, existing under the influence of internal and external environments, defined as: compliance with the breed standard, medical standards for milk consumption, increased investment in the industry, its resource potential. On the basis of a retrospective analysis, the evolution of technological structures in dairy cattle breeding in Russia is considered: pre-industrial, collective farming with agricultural mechanization, industrial, intensive technocratic, biotechnological. In addition, on the basis of the organizational and economic analysis of dairy cattle breeding in the Tambov region, the trends of its functioning have been determined: a decrease in the self-sufficiency of the region’s population with milk and dairy products; destructuring of the production sector with an increase in the share of enterprises with low-intensity and extensive milk production; low intensity of reproduction of a herd of cattle; a wide variety of breed composition of dairy cattle. It was found that agricultural enterprises of the region, as a rule, specializing in the development of dairy cattle breeding, choose the direction of organizing a purebred herd with standardized exterior features. This is a fundamentally different way of breeding work from all-Russian trends. On the basis of the research carried out, the priority directions of the development of dairy cattle breeding in an innovation-oriented context are substantiated.

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Development of a new maize hybrid for the Ecuadorian lowland

Agronomía Colombiana ◽

10.15446/agron.colomb.v36n2.68782 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 174-179

Author(s):

Ricardo Limongi-Andrade ◽

Daniel Alarcón-Cobeña ◽

Eddie Zambrano-Zambrano ◽

Marlon Caicedo ◽

Paúl Villavicencio-Linzan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Zea Mays L ◽

Regression Coefficient ◽

Yield Potential ◽

Curvularia Lunata ◽

Exserohilum Turcicum ◽

Maize Production ◽

Maize Hybrid ◽

Puccinia Sorghi ◽

Feed Production ◽

Self Sufficiency

Yellow maize (Zea mays L. var. indurata) is mainly produced in the Ecuadorian lowlands (less than 1,200 m a.s.l.), primarily for feed production. Although Ecuador has recently increased maize production, new genotypes are needed for self-sufficiency and in order to avoid costly imports. Maize is sown mostly from December to January during the rainy season. However, the irregularity of rainfall has become a constraint on production. “INIAP H-603 Superior” is a new single-cross maize hybrid developed for the Ecuadorian lowlands with improved yields, which could contribute to domestic food security. The new hybrid had an average yield of 8.48 t ha-1 with outstanding performance under the rainfall, sustained moisture, and irrigation conditions, outperforming the commercial hybrids INIAP H-602, DEKALB-7088 and INIAP H-553. Additionally, the new hybrid showed tolerance to the principal foliar diseases: leaf blight (Exserohilum turcicum), rust (Puccinia sorghi), and leaf spot (Curvularia lunata), as well as good adaptability and stability, with a regression coefficient (bi) of 0.98 when it was evaluated in 29 locations from 2010 to 2013. The greatest yield potential of the new hybrid (10.82 t ha-1) was obtained with irrigation during the dry season.

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Formation of Financial Self-Sufficiency for Local Budgets in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects of Increasing the Revenue Base

Mechanism of an economic regulation ◽

10.21272/mer.2020.89.01 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 6-17

Author(s):

ANZHELA YA. KUZNYETSOVA ◽

LIUDMYLA S. ZAKHARKINA ◽

VOLODYMYR M. NOVIKOV ◽

RUSLANA YU. CHUKHNO

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Structural Dynamic ◽

Local Taxation ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Study Results ◽

Local Budget ◽

Community Budget ◽

Taxation System ◽

Budget Revenue

The guarantee for stable development of the local community's well-being creates conditions to ensure the financial self-sufficiency for local budgets. Today it is urgent to improve the theoretical and practical approaches to forming the local budget revenue to ensure the necessary financial self-sufficiency level for local budgets. Thus, the purpose of this research is to investigate the level of financial self-sufficiency for local budgets in Ukraine in 1998−2019 by analyzing the revenue side of these budgets. The research used methods of economic, systemic, and structural dynamic analysis. The paper compares different approaches to defining the concept of “financial self-sufficiency for local budgets”. It is determined that the community's success depends on the level of its financial self-sufficiency, which is possible only when the community has financial resources fully to implement local budgets in terms of expenditures. Structural and dynamic analysis of the local budget revenue in Ukraine for 1998-2019 is carried out to assess the level of financial self-sufficiency for local budgets in Ukraine as a whole. The study results indicate the state measures correctness in the reforming of the local taxation system in 2010 and budget decentralization in 2015. However, these measures must be fully implemented and systemic. Conclusions: the composition and structure of the revenues of the local budgets are continually changing, due to the constant changes in the tax system of Ukraine and the state’s efforts to solve the problem of generating local budget revenues, not due to the development of local taxation, but via official transfers. In such conditions, the self-sufficiency of local budgets does not receive the appropriate level. Local budgets are formed on the principle of minimum execution. However, the local taxation system development and the significant increase in tax revenues from local taxes since 2015 allow us to make optimistic forecasts for the growth of the financial self-sufficiency level for local budgets in the future. Keywords: self-sufficiency, community, budget, taxes.

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Health Care for the Underprivileged in the Land of Affluence: California Native Americans

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.62.3.377 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 377-381

Author(s):

Theodore A. Montgomery

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Native American ◽

Native Americans ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Care Education ◽

Urban Centers ◽

Native American Culture ◽

Indian Identity ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Indian Lands

The American Indian has demonstrated all too clearly, despite his recent move to urban centers, that he is not content to be a poverty statistic. He has demonstrated the strength and fiber of strong cultural and social ties by maintaining an Indian identity in many of the nation's largest metropolitan centers. At the same time, he aspires to the same goal of all citizens—a life of decency and self-sufficiency. The non-Indian population of California needs to keep in mind that at the time the Indians agreed (under coercion in most cases) to turn their ancestral lands over to the white man, treaties were signed by the Indians which promised that, in exchange for Indian lands, the white man would provide for the health care, education, and welfare of Indians. Indians are attempting to achieve a life-style compatible with individual dignity and personal peace—the base of Native American culture. There must be rediscovery and preservation of that culture to insure the physical, mental, and environmental well-being of its members.

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