Answer:
Poultry farming is
undertaken to raise domestic fowl for egg production and chicken meat. For
this, improved poultry breeds are developed and farmed to produce layers for
eggs and broilers for meat.
The cross-breeding programmes between
Indian (indigenous like Aseel) and foreign (exotic like Leghorn) breeds for variety
improvement are focused on developing new varieties for the following desirable
traits:
(a) The number and quality of chicks.
(b) Dwarf broiler parent for commercial
chick production.
(c) Tolerance to high temperature.
(d) Low maintenance requirements.
(e) Reduction in the size of the
egg-laying bird possessing the ability to utilise more fibrous and economical
diet that are formulated using agricultural by-products.
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