Showing posts with label production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label production. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

How to make money from sheep production

A productive and well managed farm can provide suitable space for profitably raising sheep, With productive sheep and close control of expenses, a profit is possible. Sheep produce income from the sale of meat, wool and milk. The highest-quality meat is produced from lambs, sheep under one year of age. Most sheep are sheared once per year to produce wool. Sheep’s milk is...

How farmers can increase their farm productivity

Use improved Tools and Implements: Farming is no longer practiced using simple but rather ineffective tools (such as hoes, cutlasses, axes, etc.) that made agriculture tedious and production low. Technology has ushered in tractors, hand-operated planters, wheel barrows, harrows, hand-operated fertilizer drills, combined harvesters which have increased agricultural productivity. Farmers...

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

FISH FARMING

AQUACULTURE Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species' natural numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery. Worldwide,...

Monday, May 19, 2014

HOW TO START A POULTRY FARM

Poultry farming poultry at your backyard poultry on a largescale(intensive farming) firstly, you have to know what aspect you want to be based on. Is it???? Egg production Meat production Poultry feed production Chicken breeding Secondly, you have to know the type of bird you want to breed. Chicken Turkey Goose Duck Peacock But I would be writing on chicken breeding...

HOW TO START A PIG FARM

Pig farming Pigs on the farm A sow and her piglets Pigs can be farmed as free range, being allowed to wander around a village, kept in fields, or tethered in a simple shelter. In developed countries, farming has moved away from traditional pig farming and pigs are now typically intensively farmed. Today, pig farms are much larger than in the past, with most...

Sunday, May 18, 2014

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR FARM

Farm management: What is a farm??? What do we mean by management??? A farm is specified area where agricultural activities takes place, for instance, planting of crops and rearing of animals(livestock). management is d making of decisions involved in organizing a particular thing or place for its maximum success, therefore farm management is the decision making involved in...

Saturday, May 17, 2014

VIRAL DISEASES OF POULTRY

AVIAN POX Avian pox is a relatively slow-spreading viral disease in birds, characterized by wart-like nodules on the skin and diphtheritic necrotic membranes lining the mouth and upper respiratory system. It has been present in birds since the earliest history. Mortality is not usually significant unless the respiratory involvement is marked. The disease may occur in any age...