Duck Rearing


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Authors

  • M A Akbar
  • S. Sreehari
  • J S Yadav

Abstract

Ducks are suitable for integrated farming systems such as duck-cumfish farming and duck farming with rice cultivation. In duck-cum-fishfarming the droppings of ducks serve as feed for the fishes. Under integrated duck farming with rice cultivation, the ducks perform four essential functions, intertillage as they search for food with their spoon like bills. Ducks are good exterminators of potato beetles, grasshoppers, snails and slugs. Ducks can be used to free
the water bodies from mosquitoe pupae and larvae.

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Author Biographies

  • M A Akbar
    Department of Animal Nutrition,
  • S. Sreehari
    Government of Kerala, Department of Animal Husbandry,
    Pudukad, Thrissur 680 301,
  • J S Yadav
    Former Research Associate, DKMA, KAB-1,Pusa, New Delhi- 110 012

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Issue

Vol. 64 No. 5 (2014)

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How to Cite

Akbar, M. A., Sreehari, S., & Yadav, J. S. (2015). Duck Rearing. Indian Farming, 64(5). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndFarm/article/view/50361