Question

For increasing production what is common in poultry, fisheries and bee keeping?

Answer 1

The science of rearing, feeding, caring, breeding and disease control of animals is called animal husbandry. To ensure proper nutrition to our growing population there is an urgent need of increasing food production. To achieve this goal, biological principles applied to animal husbandry and plant breeding have an important role to play.

Complete answer:
Poultry is the branch of animal husbandry concerned with rearing birds for eggs and meat. Egg laying birds are called layers while meat yielding birds are called broilers. It includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons and quails etc.

Fishery or fish farming involves the rearing and breeding of fish, shellfish and other aquatic animals scientifically by man in ponds, tanks, etc. Other aquatic animals include prawns, crabs, lobsters, edible oysters etc.

Apiculture or bee keeping is the process of rearing honey bees in artificial hives, called apparel, for the production of honey at commercial level. Honey bees belong to phylum Arthropoda and class insects.

Animal husbandry is required for various reasons such as-
To increase production of eggs through Poultry farming,improve the quality of meat through fish farming, to produce more honey and beeswax through beekeeping etc.

For increasing production the following steps are common in poultry, fisheries and bee keeping-
The environment in which the organism is growing should be clean, dry, airy and well ventilated.
The temperature should be optimum for the development of the organism.
Animal breeding has to be done to improve the yield e.g. natural breeding, artificial breeding.
The food should be nutritious with all the nutrients required for the proper development of a particular organism.

Note:
Animal husbandry includes cattle farming, poultry farming, pisciculture, apiculture etc, which are the common Animal based farming practices. The government of India has established a number of agencies which, with continuous cooperation of farmer's cooperative organisations, have increased milk, eggs, fish etc, production manifolds during the last 40 years.