A Lady Mrs. Galbiben Jethabhai Kuniya, District Banaskantha sets the best example of a successful woman. Being still an illiterate woman, she has achieved success in field of agriculture & animal husbandry. >>>
An old adage says, “India lives in villages” as more than 65% of Indian population lives in rural area. Also, more than 70% Indian rural households own livestock. So, the livestock sector can play a vital role in socio-economic development of farmers. The dairy animals are kept commonly for meeting daily needs of milk and milk products. >>>
Women being the predominant player in dairying, their empowerment in terms of knowledge and skill >>>
Early pregnancy diagnosis is essential to maintain the farm in a profitable manner. Timely diagnosis of the non pregnant animal by the farmer helps them to rebreed at the subsequent estrus and to maintain an optimum calving interval. >>>
Mastitis is the most widespread and costly disease in dairy cattle occurring throughout the world. It is of particular concern for farmers in developing >>>
Definition of body condition score. The body condition scoring (BCS) is a subjective measure of the energy reserve and indirect indicator of the energy balance >>>
India ranks first in milk production accounting for 18.5 percent of world production (Economic survey 2015-16). The value of India’s milk output during 2012-13 has been estimated at over Rs.2900 billion, higher than the combined value of other major agricultural crops like paddy, wheat and sugarcane (National Dairy Development Board 2014). >>>
Diarrhoea is one of the common digestive disorders in bovines of all age groups causing heavy economic losses to dairy industry due to mortality in neonates and losses in terms of production and reproduction in adult dairy animals. Various infectious agents including bacteria, viruses and parasites cause diarrhoea in farm animals. >>>
Udder edema is also known as caked udder, is mostly a disease of dairy cattle, is usually acute characterised by an excessive accumulation of fluid in the interstitial tissue spaces. >>>
Milk is the complete food. It contains in a balanced form of all the necessary and digestable elements for building and maintaining the human and animal body. In addition, it contains immunoglobulins which protect the newly born against a number of diseases’. >>>
Record keeping is one of the utmost important part of dairy business. The success or failure of any business is highly dependent on efficiency of record keeping. Dairy farming is one of the most adoptable business of rural areas of India but the major setback of dairy farming is that people of rural area do not adopt it as business. They rear animals for their household need, not as profession. >>>
When a heifer calves for the first time, she has to experience a set of completely new maneuvers. Since she is not accustomed to these procedures, she can pose great threat to her handlers. The very first milking after calving is mostly uneventful in pluriparous animals. However, the farmer could lead himself into trouble once a heifer at his farm calves. >>>
Abstract Indian livestock sector with its vast animal genetic resources and highest milk production continues >>>
In order to complement and supplement the efforts made by the States for development of >>>
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