Duck Production and Management
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Book Description
This book covers nearly all the aspects of duck rearing system with various duck genetic resources of India, their nutritional requirements, care management, diseases and prevention, slaughter, grading, packaging of meat, nutritional importance of meat & egg and integrated farming. To make this book more competent for farmers, enlisted certain drugs for treatment of different diseases of duck and vaccination schedule has also been included in the text. References have been included in this book to refer the interested reader for details understanding of duck rearing system. The language is kept simple and lucid for ease of understanding. This book will find right place in the hands of researchers, veterinary graduates, students of the animal sciences and farmers who are engaged in duck farming.
Table of Contents
1. DUCK GENETIC RESOURCES OF INDIA
Dr. Jowel Debnath
2. WHY DUCK FARMING?
Dr. Jowel Debnath
3. NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS OF DUCKS AND THEIR FEEDING
Dr. Bikas Ch. Debnath and Tapan Kr. Das
4. DUCK MANAGEMENT
Dr. Jowel Debnath and Dr. Debajyoti Sarkar
5. DISEASES OF DUCKS AND PREVENTION
Dr. Biplab Debroy and Dr. Jowel Debnath
6. SLAUGHTER OF DUCK, GRADING AND PACKAGING OF DUCK MEAT
Dr. Bijoy Kumar Sarkar
7. NUTRITIONAL IMPORTANCE OF DUCK MEAT AND EGG
Dr. Jowel Debnath
8. INTEGRATED FARMING
Dr. Jowel Debnath
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Biography
Jowel Debnath is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Livestock Farm Complex (Animal Genetics & Breeding), College of Veterinary Sciences and A.H., R.K.Nagar, West, Tripura-799008 since 2012. He obtained B.V.Sc & A.H degree from College of Veterinary Sciences and A.H., Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram (India) in 2009. He did his M.V.Sc and Ph.D in Animal Genetics & Breeding from Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, U.P-243122 in the year of 2011 and 2016, respectively. He cleared ICAR-ASRB NET in the discipline of Animal Production and Animal Genetics & Breeding in the year of 2012 and 2016, respectively and also cleared the ICAR’s All India Examination, ICAR-SRF (PGS)-2011-12. He was awarded for IPSA Prof. P.K. Pani research award-2015 from Indian Poultry Sciences Association, ICAR-CARI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, U.P-243122. The author is actively engaged in research, extension and teaching in undergraduate level. So far, he has published more than 25 research paper, review and popular articles in reputed national and international journals.