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Investigating the biological interpretation of adilopan (appetite satisfaction), a term used by Nepalese hill farmers to evaluate fodder quality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

DB Subba ,
PJ Thorne ,
HM Omed  and
FL Sinclair
DB Subba
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK.
PJ Thorne
Affiliation:
Stirling Thorne Associates, UK
HM Omed*
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK.
FL Sinclair
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK.
*
E-mail: [email protected]
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Livestock play an important role in sustaining rural livelihoods in the mid-hills of Nepal. Farmers in this region have an indigenous knowledge system for describing the nutritive value of tree fodders (Thapa et al., 1997) that they use in the management of fodder resources to cope with feed scarcity during the winter. Previous studies of farmers’ knowledge revealed two descriptors for fodder: posilopan, meaning literally nutritiousness and related to protein supply, and, obhanopan literally meaning ‘dryness and warmness’, as opposed to ‘chiso’ which means ‘wet and cold’ but relating to how voraciously fodders are consumed and their overall dry matter digestibility (Thorne et al., 1999). These descriptors are widely and consistently used by Nepalese farmers (Walker et al., 1999). Further investigation has led to the discovery of a third descriptor, ‘adilopan ‘, (literal meaning ‘duration of appetite satisfaction’ used in association with the term ‘obhanopan’. This study investigates the biological interpretation of the term adilopan, revealing the importance to farmers of the extent to which tree fodders satisfy animal appetite.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2004 , 2004 , pp. 63
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

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