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VOLUME 02 (2024) | Pastures & Pastoralism

Gradually, pasturelands are being converted into other land uses or enclosed for exclusive uses under various national laws or policies. Resilience of pastoralist communities to the changing environments – ecological, economic and political – has great potential to protecting and conserving the pastureland landscapes or waterscapes. Such resilience is more talked in context of climate change and its impact on the herder communities surviving in marginal environments. In the view of widespread regional and national policy failures and modernity-catalyzed societal rejection of transhumance and nomadic pastoralism, International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 declared by the United Nations General Assembly is a grand opportunity for all to revitalize the least-external-input driven systems of livestock raising and mobility across the continents. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.

VOLUME 2, (2024)

M – 00383Research Article

Validation of the Indigenous Technical Knowledge of Cattle Pastoralists of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

Kanna K. Siripurapu*1, Faisal Moola2, Shilpi Sharma3, Anushree Sainger4,
Kameswara Rao Kotamraju5

1School of Arts and Design, Woxsen University, Sangareddy District, Hyderabad - 502 345. India.

Email: kanna.siripurapu@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1244-4373

2Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. Email: fmoola@uoguelph.ca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9803-8514

3Telangana State Biodiversity Board, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Email: shilpibiodiversity@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2809-7959

4MART Global Management Solutions, Sutra Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Email: anushreesinghvns@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9899-5475

5Department of Environmental Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.

Email: kotamrajukkrao@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5826-9622

*Corresponding author

Pastures & Pastoralism, 02, 49-81. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0204

Received: 14 January 2023

Reviewed: 21 February 2023

Revised: 13 May 2024

Accepted: 15 May 2024

Published: 20 May 2024


                                    

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ABSTRACT

Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) of livestock breeding is often tacit and not necessarily expressed in conventional forms of scientific research and documentation. Indigenous livestock breeding systems rely mostly on qualitative traits than pure quantitative qualities. Qualitative traits are difficult to measure and most of the indigenous knowledge systems are in forms of qualitative traits. The lack of documentation and predominant qualitative nature makes it difficult to validate the ITK related to livestock breeding. In this context a study was conducted to examine the traditional breeding practices associated with two heritage cattle breeds of the Deccan Plateau region of India. The study examines the criteria used for selection of the breeding bulls of the indigenous Poda Thurpu and Nallmala-Pasa/Kamma, cattle breeds native to the study area. Results of the study identifies fourteen traits specific to breeding bulls and four traits that are generic to the breeding stock/cows. These traits/characteristics are ‘deemed desirable’ by the local cattle breeders for the ‘heritage breeds’, believed to have been bred and managed by them for generations. Observations of the present study supports the notion that traditional breeders of heritage breeds lay more emphasis on qualitative traits (ability to warding-off predators, fending off-springs, coat colour and texture, gait of the animal, temperament, and response and obedience to instructions of the master) than quantitative traits. It was found that local breeders give significant importance to the fertility of bovine bulls than cows. Breeding bulls are meticulously chosen with extreme caution and care, following a very long and meticulous selection process that could last for four years. Traditionally local cattle breeders of the study follow open nucleus breeding system for breeding and are strictly against promotion of inbreeding among their cattle herds. Only men are involved in cattle breeding in the study area and women usually stay away.

Keywords

Heritage breeds, Indigenous cattle, Pastoralists, Deccan Plateau, Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK)

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