Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dhemaji

Information on population, production and productivity of livestock commodities

Livestock is an important enterprise of the district. The population of milch cows is 44.38% of the total livestock and followed by pigs (34.35%), goats (13.64%) and buffaloes (7.64%). Population of milch cows has increased to 20.13% by 2005 in comparison to 1970 and goats by 311.66% while the population of buffaloes has remained static over the last 35 years except some minor increase or decrease in years. The production of cow’s milk has sown an increase of 39.76% while the production of buffalo’s milk has decreased 14.58 by 2006 in comparison to 1970. The production of meat of goats has increased 34.53%, meat of pigs 35.50%, meat of poultry and duckery together has recorded an increase of 260%. Production of eggs of both poultry and duckery has increased 305% during the year 2006 in comparison to the production level of 1970. This has been become possible either due to the increase in population particularly of cows in increase in productivity especially in case of meat and egg production of goat, pigs, poultry and duckery.

Table 1. Information on present status of livestocks

Name of blocks	Milk cattle in numbers				Sheep in numbers	Goat in numbers	Poultry/ duckery Birds in number		Pigs in numbers
	Cows		Buffaloes				Poultry/ duckery Birds in number		Pigs in numbers
	Local	Exotic	Local	Exotic			Backyard	Farm	Exotic	Local
MSTD (Jonai)	42668	8	4	9500	4	14333	84536	18	28000	19000
Sissiborgaon	21100	2	-	4300	2	7000	42268	12	12090	900
Dhemaji	21300	6	-	800	4	5036	42802	32	15317	1500
Machkhowa	23000	-	-	3056	-	7257	45729	6	16211	1730
Bordoloni	21000	-	-	4535	6	6351	36219	7	13316	830
total	129060	16	4	22191	16	39644	251554	75	84934	14960

Table 2. Information on population of important livestocks in numbers

Year	Livestocks
1970	Milch Cow “000 nos.	Milch Buffalo 000 nos.	Goat 000 nos.	Pig 000 nos.	Poultry+ Duckery (Egg)(nos.)	Poultry+ Duckery(Meat) (Nos.)
1970	1,82,350	22,211	12,720	51628	73293	146587
1975	1,83,825	20,316	13,628	51801	76301	152603
1980	1,88,221	19,611	20,237	52015	79672	159344
1985	1,89,802	18,632	22,116	52394	80005	160010
1990	1,99,333	19113	27,251	62403	82715	165430
1995	2,15,302	18,327	30,119	62480	83677	167354
2000	2,17,251	21,316	28,225	72600	85044	170088
2005	2,19,060	22,211	39,644	99894	85978	171956

Table 3. Information on Production of important commodities of livestocks

Year	Name of Commodities
1970	Cow (Milk) in million litres.	Buffalo( Milk) in million litres.	Goat (Meat) in tones	Pig (Meat) in tones	Poultry+ Duckery (Egg)in million nos.	Poultry+ Duckery(Meat) In tones
1970	530	48	53.00	53.10	37	10
1975	630	43	63.20	56.90	54	20
1980	640	52	64.80	61.30	67	22
1985	651	48	65.40	65.90	96	23
1990	681	38	68.00	70.80	83	22
1995	702	35	70.00	71.00	112	26
2000	703	41	71.30	71.70	113	26
2005	712	52	72.00	71.20	97	25

Table 4. Productivity of milk per day/animal, meat in Kg/animal and egg in nos./bird/year

Year	Name of Commodities
Year	Cow (Milk) litres/cow/day.	Buffalo Milk Litres/ buffalo/day.	Goat (Meat) Kg/Animal	Pig (Meat) Kg/animal	Poultry+ Duckery (Egg) Nos./bird/year	Poultry+ Duckery (Meat) Kg/bird/year
1970	3.0	2.0	22.0	60.5	85.0	2.5
1975	3.4	2.0	22.5	62.3	90.0	3.0
1980	3.4	2.6	22.6	68.0	100.0	3.2
1985	3.4	2.5	23.0	70.0	110.0	3.5
1990	3.4	2.0	22.0	72.5	110.0	4.0
1995	3.2	2.0	22.0	73.0	120.0	4.8
2000	3.2	2.0	19.0	80.0	120.0	4.8
2005	3.2	2.3	18.0	80.0	120.0	5.0

Table 5. On-going developmental Schemes of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary

Sector	Schemes	Activity	Fund/Input received/utilized (Rs. in thousand)	Objectives of schemes
World Bank	AACP	Farmers Training on Piggery Dev.	78	Awareness
Central		Enrichment of Straws and Cellulose waste	570nos.	Nutritional feed for livestock
	Rastriya Sam Vikash Yojana (RSVY)	Revolving fund for dev of piggery unit Small Pig breeding unit	500 nos. 500nos.	Upliftment of SHG/NGO To make availability of piglets
		District level awareness cum Vaccination camp (ASCAD)	15	Awareness for eradication of H.S., B. Q., R.D., F.M.D. etc.
		Block level awareness cum Vaccination camp (ASCAD)	24	-do-
		Burial Pits	25 nos.	Decomposition of Waste product

Extensions

Others

Animal husbandry in Dhemaji