"STUDIES ON MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOLLOWED FOR LIVESTOCK FODDER CAMPS"

Five livestock fodder camp from Bhoom tahsil of Osmanabad district were selected with the objectives to study the feeding, breeding, housing and health cover practices of livestock, to record the production performance and to study the constraints faced by the livestock owner. The data was collected from the 200 respondents in four livestock fodder camp. The study revealed that 28.05 per cent of the respondents were marginal farmers, 32.00 per cent of the respondents were small farmers, 24.00 per cent of the respondents were medium farmers, 15.05 percent of the respondents were large farmers while 0.00 per cent of the respondents landless laborer respectively. Majority of livestock owners reared indigenous animal (90.00per cent) followed by crossbred (47.00 per cent) and 20.50 per cent farmer had nondescript animal. All the farmers in fodder camp provide feed and fodder as decided by state government i.e. large animals were fed with 15 kg green fodder, 6 kg dry fodder and 0.500 kg concentrate.