Exam Details
| Subject | Livestock And Pasture Management | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | DIPLOMA IN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (DIWM) | |
| Department | School of Agriculture (SOA) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | June, 2015 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
1. Define any ten of the following terminologies:
Ruminant
Calving Interval
Breed
Artificial Insemination
Balanced Ration
Heifer
Flock
Doe
Sty
Hen
Mixed farming
Calf
What are the different methods used for identification of livestock? Explain in detail anyone method.
List any five points for a new livestock farm to be considered while planning.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Full Hand Milking
Factors affecting oestrous cycle
Dystokia
What are the five important precautions to be taken during vaccination of an animal/bird?
Name any three important nutritional and metabolic diseases affecting livestock. Explain anyone disease.
Differentiate between Concentrate and Roughage.
Describe the feeding management of kids.
Give the green fodder yield (quintals/hectare) for the following crops:
Jowar
Cowpea
Berseem
Hybrid Napier Grass
Guinea Grass
Define multiple cropping. How it can help in year-round forage production?
Explain importance of conservation of fodder? What are the different methods of conserving fodder? Describe in brief any one method.
What are the advantages of silage?
8. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Controlled Continuous Grazing
Agroforestry
Advantages of silvipasture
Ruminant
Calving Interval
Breed
Artificial Insemination
Balanced Ration
Heifer
Flock
Doe
Sty
Hen
Mixed farming
Calf
What are the different methods used for identification of livestock? Explain in detail anyone method.
List any five points for a new livestock farm to be considered while planning.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Full Hand Milking
Factors affecting oestrous cycle
Dystokia
What are the five important precautions to be taken during vaccination of an animal/bird?
Name any three important nutritional and metabolic diseases affecting livestock. Explain anyone disease.
Differentiate between Concentrate and Roughage.
Describe the feeding management of kids.
Give the green fodder yield (quintals/hectare) for the following crops:
Jowar
Cowpea
Berseem
Hybrid Napier Grass
Guinea Grass
Define multiple cropping. How it can help in year-round forage production?
Explain importance of conservation of fodder? What are the different methods of conserving fodder? Describe in brief any one method.
What are the advantages of silage?
8. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Controlled Continuous Grazing
Agroforestry
Advantages of silvipasture
Other Question Papers
Departments
- Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
- Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
- National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
- School of Agriculture (SOA)
- School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
- School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
- School of Education (SOE)
- School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
- School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
- School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
- School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
- School of Health Science (SOHS)
- School of Humanities (SOH)
- School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
- School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
- School of Law (SOL)
- School of Management Studies (SOMS)
- School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
- School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
- School of Sciences (SOS)
- School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
- School of Social Work (SOSW)
- School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
- School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
- School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
- School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
- Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)
Subjects
- Elements Of Hydrology
- Fundamentals Of Watershed Management
- Funding, Monitoring, Evaluation And Capacity Building
- Horticulture And Agroforestry System
- Livestock And Pasture Management
- Rainfed Farming
- Soil And Water Conservation