Duck Production and Management

This book covers nearly all the aspects of duck rearing system with various duck genetic resources of India, their nutritional requirements, care management, diseases and prevention, slaughter, grading, packaging of meat, nutritional importance of meat & egg and integrated farming.

Jowel Debnath is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Livestock Farm Complex (Animal Genetics & Breeding), College of Veterinary Sciences and A.H., R.K.Nagar, West, Tripura-799008 since 2012. He obtained B.V.Sc & A.H degree from College of Veterinary Sciences and A.H., Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram (India) in 2009. He did his M.V.Sc and Ph.D in Animal Genetics & Breeding from Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, U.P-243122 in the year of 2011 and 2016, respectively. He cleared ICAR-ASRB NET in the discipline of Animal Production and Animal Genetics & Breeding in the year of 2012 and 2016, respectively and also cleared the ICAR’s All India Examination, ICAR-SRF (PGS)-2011-12. He was awarded for IPSA Prof. P.K. Pani research award-2015 from Indian Poultry Sciences Association, ICAR-CARI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, U.P-243122. The author is actively engaged in research, extension and teaching in undergraduate level. So far, he has published more than 25 research paper, review and popular articles in reputed national and international journals.