Palatability is that distinguishing characteristic which motivates the animals to graze the plants. The present study focused on to explore palatability of flora district Banuu. The palatability values were calculated day by day monitoring of the individual animal grazing preferences by various plant species, various plant parts and different plant conditions for 2 consecutive years. During the current study, about 193 species of 155 genera belonging to 54 families were enumerated for palatability value in the research area. Out of 193 plant species about 37 species (19.17%) were nonpalatable having poisonous characteristics in nature and about 156 (80.83%) plant species were palatable having different measurement of palatability in the area. Among 156 plant species the palatable plants were 50 (17.66%) grazed by cow, about 92 (32.50%) were by goat and about 90 (31.80%) by sheep. While the remaining 51 (18.02%) were browsed by camel. The people of the study area having large numbers of domesticated animals. Overgrazing has adverse effects on plant diversity in the area. So, control grazing and afforestation is good in future outline for this area.
Ihsan Ullah, Siraj Ud Din, Rehman Ullah Khan, Saad Ullah Khan, Manzoor Ullah. (2018) PALATABILITY AND ANIMAL PREFERENCES OF PLANTS IN RAIN FED AREA, , Volume 15, Issue 2.
