Abstract:

Livestock economy forms a major part of our agricultural economics. Tribals in far-flung rural areas still depend upon plants and household remedies for curing various veterinary ailments. The folk knowledge of ethnoveterinary significance has been identified by tribals through a process of experience over hundreds of years. The study throws light on folk ethnoveterinary practices of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. The paper deals with 30 diseases of domestic animals and their treatment by 62 plant species found in close vicinity of the rural people of the area.