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Role and Present Status of Biotechnology in Augmenting Poultry Productivity in India

Role and Present Status of Biotechnology in Augmenting Poultry Productivity in India India although has achieved self sufficiency in food grains, it has to solve the problems of protein-energy malnutrition for millions of people. Presently, poultry industry has emerged as a big hope, which can meet not only the protein requirement to millions but can provide employment and thereby, livelihood security. India is the 3rd largest producer of eggs and holds 5th position in poultry meat production in the world. Developments like emergence of molecular markers, structural and functional genomics, bioinformatics etc. in the field of the biotechnology have provided ample opportunity to peep into the molecular architecture of the individual birds. Improvement of poultry birds all together can be achieved through conventional breeding approach, but amalgamation of conventional and molecular approach can generate further improvement of birds in sustainable manners, which in turn augment productivity of the poultry very rapidly and efficiently bypassing the impact of climate change being faced by the whole world today. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences Springer Journals

Role and Present Status of Biotechnology in Augmenting Poultry Productivity in India

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by The National Academy of Sciences, India
Subject
Life Sciences; Life Sciences, general; Behavioural Sciences; Plant Biochemistry; Nucleic Acid Chemistry
ISSN
0369-8211
eISSN
2250-1746
DOI
10.1007/s40011-014-0306-y
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Abstract

India although has achieved self sufficiency in food grains, it has to solve the problems of protein-energy malnutrition for millions of people. Presently, poultry industry has emerged as a big hope, which can meet not only the protein requirement to millions but can provide employment and thereby, livelihood security. India is the 3rd largest producer of eggs and holds 5th position in poultry meat production in the world. Developments like emergence of molecular markers, structural and functional genomics, bioinformatics etc. in the field of the biotechnology have provided ample opportunity to peep into the molecular architecture of the individual birds. Improvement of poultry birds all together can be achieved through conventional breeding approach, but amalgamation of conventional and molecular approach can generate further improvement of birds in sustainable manners, which in turn augment productivity of the poultry very rapidly and efficiently bypassing the impact of climate change being faced by the whole world today.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences – Springer Journals

Published: Feb 20, 2014

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