| PAS_1 |
"Cotton Stalk."https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cotton-stalk |
| PAS_2 |
|
| Agro Ecological Zone |
Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain And Kathiawar Peninsula, Semi-Arid Eco- Region (5.3) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujrat Plains And Hills Region (XIII) ,Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra (GJ-6)
South Saurashtra (GJ-7) |
| Disease Symptoms / Clinical Signs |
|
| Disease Description |
|
| Disease Control |
|
| Disease Prevention |
|
| Precautions |
|
| Procedure of Use |
Bhikhalal Prabhudas Masrani from the Amreli district of Gujarat makes use of cotton stalk as cattle feed. Rainfed cotton is grown in some parts of Saurashtra. Normally cotton stalks are used as fuel.
Masrani uses it as cattle feed. Once during a year of drought he fed small pieces of cotton stalks to one animal, on an experimental basis and gave normal feed to other animals.
Much to his surprise Masrani observed that there were no ill effects and the animal was as healthy as the ones given normal feed. Since then he started feeding cotton stalk regularly to all animals once in a day. Masrani believes that an inexpensive and high quality feed can be prepared by mixing molasses and salt with pieces of cotton stalk. This food has a good scope of being utlized as stress feed during the drought years in Saurashtra region.
<p>
According to chopra et al (1956), and Nadkarni (1976), cotton has galactogogue property which improves milk yield as well as fat content of milk. |
| Etiology Causative Agent |
|
| Global Context |
|
| Lesson Implication |
|
| Other Medications / Treatments |
|
| Limitations of Approaches |
|
| Other Community Practices |
|
| Practice ID |
KNW0010000000879 |
| Reference |
HBN database |
| Annotation ID |
GIAN/GAVL/1313 |
| Reference |
HBN database |
| Scout |
HBN |
Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)