Abstract
At present there are 371 thousand animal units in Hazara Per-investment Forestry Project area, which require 948 thousand tones of air dry forage annually against the present production of only 547 thousand tones from cropland, rangeland and forests combined. The production of Shaftal can be increased by 90 thousand tones if the local variety is replaced with improved variety and fertilized. Planting of summer legumes in 10 per cant of the cultivated land and alfalfa under apple trees can increase the forage production by 772 and 40 thousand tones respectively. Replacement of undesirable forage species on field boundaries and range fertilization can further increase for age production by 27 and 128 thousand tones respectively. In this way the annual forage production can be increased to 1604 thousand tones and the animal units to 628 thousand. At the present level of efficiency of conversion of feed to animal products, they can be increased 2.9 times by increasing their feed production through better management.
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