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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from dairy animals. The methane mitigation projects can offer both, environmental and economic benefits as the emissions also imply loss of energy in dairy production. In the recent years, the GHG mitigation activities have intensified under the Kyoto Protocol. Despite of high contribution of dairy animals to the Indias GHG budget, the mitigation efforts in this direction have been lacking. Baseline, the quantum of business-as-usual emissions, is a prerequisite for formulating a mitigation project. This study, covering 13 Indian states in all the...

The book discusses and covers meaning, definition of sustainable development and sustainability of agriculture and livestock production system, issues of agriculture and livestock sustainability in developing countries, an overview of approaches used by different authors, data requirement and sources of data for sustainability assessment at macro and micro level, different tools of sustainability assessment viz. Total Factor Productivity, Sustainable Livestock Production Index, Sustainable Dairy Farming Index along covering all the three dimensions of sustainability viz. economic, social and...