Livestock farming plays a critical role in the livelihood of rural households in India. One of the key challenges in animal husbandry is the high cost and imbalanced feeding practices due to limited awareness about scientific feed formulations. Balanced nutrition is crucial for optimizing growth, reproduction, and milk production, while minimizing disease incidence and improving feed efficiency. In Bundelkhand and other rainfed regions, fodder scarcity, poor-quality crop residues and fluctuating feed prices further aggravate nutritional challenges. 

Hence, capacity building in feed formulation using locally available resources, unconventional feed ingredients and precision nutrition techniques are essential to improve livestock productivity and profitability.