From the archive record
Along with agriculture, cattle farming in Madhya Pradesh has unique and critical role to boost up its overall economic scenario. Madhya Pradesh has a primitive economy. Livestock are acclaimed as a major source of livelihood of the population of Madhya Pradesh. Besides, cattle are largely used for the purpose of ploughing the fields as well as in transportation. Livestock farming is the subsidiary occupation of the people of this state along with main agricultural practices. This state of Central India is characterised by the dominance of rural settlements. Unlike, the livestock practices in the Himalayan region, plains of Ganga and Yamuna and Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats Madhya Pradesh represents very low level of livestock practices. Mostly, drought animals are reared and they are use