Interventions to increase fodder:
- support to research and advisory services,
- promotion of methods for production,
- conservation and storage of roughage,
- dissemination of methods for enrichment and improvements of crop by-products, for pasture development and management, common land improvement like community owned and managed feedlots and fodder banks, agro-forestry and sylvo-pasture development,
- promotion of semi-zero or zero-grazing systems where relevant. Provision of seed and planting material.
Interventions to increase availability and quality of concentrate feed:
- support to make industrial by products available for feeding (cotton seed decortications, brewers mesh, molasses and so on),
- support to establishment of feed factories producing ready made concentrate mixtures, and supplementary feed items like vitamins and minerals,
- support to feed milling and mixing, input procurement and supply of raw material included minerals and vitamins,
- support/promote regulations and control measures related to composition and content, quality and purity for toxic matters in concentrate feeds. Regulations without independent laboratories equipped to carry out the required analysis, are not effective,
- securing access to land and water are also basic but critical requirements.
