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5.8 RETENTION OF RAGI FOR ANIMAL FEED.5.8.1 Ragi as animal feed was not very common. However, in some states, it was fed to milch animals, beefand pork stock, poultry etc. The state-wise and category-wise details of the estimated retention of Ragifor animal feed are furnished in Annexure –X. Table No. 20 shows all India retention of Ragi foranimal feed with category-wise break up.TABLE NO. 20RETENTION OF RAGI FOR ANIMAL FEED(AVERAGE 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99)(‘000 tonnes)Percent to totalproductionS.No. Category TotalproductionRetention foranimal feed1. Small 844.01 0.13 0.022. Medium 671.14 0.42 0.063. Large 767.69 0.77 0.10All India 2282.84 1.32 0.065.8.2 The state-wise break up of the total retention of Ragi for use as animal feed is furnished in Table No.21.TABLE NO. 21RETENTION OF RAGI FOR ANIMAL FEED: STATE-WISE BREAK-UP(AVERAGE 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99)(‘000 tonnes)S. No. State TotalproductionRetention foranimal feedPercent to totalproduction1 Andhra Pradesh 134.64 0.00 0.002 Arunachal Pradesh 0.00 0.00 0.003 Assam 0.00 0.00 0.004 Bihar 69.88 0.00 0.005 Goa 0.00 0.00 0.006 Gujarat 20.79 0.00 0.007 Haryana 0.00 0.00 0.008 Himachal Pradesh 6.46 0.00 0.009 Jammu & Kashmir 0.00 0.00 0.0010 Karnataka 1315.97 0.80 0.0611 Kerala 0.00 0.00 0.0012 Madhya Pradesh 3.69 0.00 0.0013 Maharashtra 158.82 0.00 0.0014 Manipur 0.00 0.00 0.0015 Meghalaya 0.00 0.00 0.0016 Mizoram 0.00 0.00 0.0017 Nagaland 0.00 0.00 0.0018 Orissa 60.44 0.20 0.0319 Punjab 0.00 0.00 0.0020 Rajasthan 0.00 0.00 0.0021 Sikkim 0.00 0.00 0.0022 Tamil Nadu 299.33 0.00 0.0023 Tripura 0.00 0.00 0.0024 Uttar Pradesh 212.82 0.32 0.1525 West Bengal 0.00 0.00 0.0026 ALL INDIA 2282.84 1.32 0.06Retention of Ragi for animal feed was mainly reported from Karnataka, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. Onall India basis, only 0.06 percent of the total production of Ragi was retained for animal feed.