The usefulness of
other domestic animals such as the goat, the sheep, the dog, the cat etc. can’t be denied. We eat the flesh of the
goat and the sheep. The dog watches our houses at right. The cat kills rats and keeps
away snakes and
insects from our houses. We get various kinds of products from our animals.
They are milk, leather, wool, horns, bones, feces, urine etc.
Of these, milk, meat,
leather, and feces are valuable for us. Milk is an ideal food. We need it most
as
protein food. We also need meat as protein food. Leather meets our need for
footwear and other things of daily use. It also earns a lot of foreign
exchange. Feces
make good manure for the soil. These are also used as fuel.
Domestic animals
are our valuable asset. Their condition should be improved at any cost. In the
first place, they should be fed properly throughout the year. This is
necessary to keep them healthy and in working condition. We should grow animal food
or fodder in the fallow land by the roadside, the railway lines, ponds and
rivers and rear our houses. Secondly, we should have more people trained in
Veterinary Science for rural areas.
There they
can help people understand about animal health and animal sickness. Thirdly, we
need vaccine and sera to avoid and cure diseases in rural domestic animals and
should take care of ensure a good supply of them. Last of all, we
should bring in some improved bulls and improve the stock of our local animals
by cross-breeding.
Ours is an agriculture
country with almost no mechanized cultivation. Almost all the work of our cultivation
depends on animal power. We have to depend on our animals for transport,
protein food like meat and milk, manure and raw materials for industry. In view
of such a great importance of animals in our life. We should be very particular
about them, provide them with food and shelter and improve their
condition for our own welfare.
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