author(s)
Jowel Debnath, Debajyoti Sarkar and Tapan Kumar Das

abstract
Duck is the one of the popular poultry bird mostly reared by the farmers in rural part of India. Duck is suitable for the places with abundant water resource i.e. pond, lake etc. Desi ducks are disease resistant and more acclimatised in comparison to exotic duck breeds. In duck rearing system, housing, nutritional management, hatchability percentage, overall health management, care and management of ducklings are very much crucial for acquiring optimum return in terms of egg and meat. Keeping the present duck rearing scenario in view, this review article enlightened on the duck rearing practices, socioeconomic condition of the duck rearers, production performance, incidence of diseases and health management of indigenous ducks in India.