Fodder scarcity has been a permanent factor in India, which in recent times is becoming inore and more acute with the increase in population and devotion of more attention to money crops like cotton, tobacco, sugarcane etc. According to a recent census in Madras, an area of 7 million acres of cultivated land has passed over from food crops to

Abstract

Fodder scarcity has been a permanent factor in India, which in recent times is becoming inore and more acute with the increase in population and devotion of more attention to money crops like cotton, tobacco, sugarcane etc. According to a recent census in Madras, an area of 7 million acres of cultivated land has passed over from food crops to commercial crops in the Madras Presidency in the present decade (8). As a result of the introduction of money crops and the conversion of grazing lands for cultivation, the Madras Livestock Development Officer (10) has roughly computed that the ryot is short of 50% of his grazing land and 15% of his fodder growing land.