Inventorization of Gaushala resources and their use in breed improvement and conservation programmes

Abstract

A comprehensive digitized inventory on Gaushalas of Haryana State with specific focus on their cattle genetic resources, and material resources was developed to integrate the data on Gaushalas on different aspects at one place. A uniform approach was followed to standardize the data using database normalization techniques. This system is menu driven and is designed using MS-Access at the back end and Visual Basic 6.0 at the front end. A user friendly graphical user interface has been developed for storage and retrieval of information from the database. A model for the use of the database information in cattle breed improvement and conservation programmes has been suggested.