ABSTRACT
In rural development programmes, a tendency to equate agriculture with crops has often led to an exclusive focus on plant species and their role in rural landscapes and livelihoods, and this is exemplified by the Green Revolution based on high-yielding variety (HYV) seeds. In the process, the significant role of animals in agriculture is often ignored (Devendra and Thomas 2002, Moritz 2010). Yet, across rural spaces, crops and animals are often interrelated in practices of agriculture (Devendra 2002, Kurosaki 2006, Herrero and Thornton 2010). Such interrelations become especially noteworthy in the context of India where the Green Revolution occurred concurrently with the White Revolution in dairying.
