Mineral status of soil, water, fodder, buffalo’s milk and blood of Meerut district in western Uttar Pradesh
Mineral status of Meerut district of Western Uttar Pradesh
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Authors
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Vaibhav Arya
Department of Animal Nutrition
College of veterinary and animal sciences
SVPUA&T (Meerut)
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Debashis Roy
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Ajit Kumar
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Ram Kumar Singh
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Rajbir Singh
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Gulab Chandra
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Ahmad Fahim
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Nazim Ali
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Shalini Vaswani
DUVASU, Mathura
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Vivek Kumar Yadav
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Rohit Kumar
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
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Anuj Kumar
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut
Abstract
Total 140 feed samples, 120 fodder samples, 105 water samples, 58 milk samples, 51 blood samples and 29 soil samples were collected randomly from all the 12 blocks of Meerut districts. After processing, the samples were analysed for different macro and micro elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) instrument (instrument name MY2015CQ05 of Agilent Technologies). Among the feeds, wheat bran was found deficient in copper by 15%. Both copper and zinc content in Mustard oil cake was found marginal. Copper was deficient in bajra fodder, berseem fodder and jowar fodder by 7.5%, 30% and 29.3%, respectively. Sugarcane top, bajra fodder, berseem fodder and jowar fodder were found deficient in zinc by 7.3%, 14.67%, 5% and 2%, respectively. Copper and zinc were also found deficient in blood sample by 15.38% and 1.25%, respectively whereas animal milk samples were deficient in copper by 66.67%. It was found that most of the feed, fodders, blood, milk and soil samples were found deficient in copper and zinc content.
