Dairy Farming Course A good Dairy farming Course can teach you how to start dairy farming from scratch. The dairy farming industry has grown tremendously in the past three decades and India is the largest milk-producing countries in the world with an estimate of 146.31 million tons of milk production on an annual basis which is around 22% of the global milk production. USA and China are at the second and third position respectively behind India in the world milk production ranking. However, still the dairy farming is practiced in India in primitive fashion. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh […]
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Cow Housing in Dairy Farming – Hygiene and Management Cow housing has paramount importance in dairy farming and proper execution in housing can maximize efficiency in dairy farming. Dairy farming is a process that includes breeding, milking, and producing milk products. Cattle housing is the place where cows are kept for eating, sleeping, and breeding. The goal of cow housing is to provide a place for cows to live so they can produce milk as efficiently as possible. Cow Housing forms a part of advanced Animal Management. When we talk about animal management, we are talking of everything, starting […]
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Record keeping in Dairy Farming is extremely important for a successful and profitable business. Without proper record keeping, the dairy farmers have to rely on their memory for making crucial decisions. Record keeping in dairy farming relates to maintaining a record of everything from livestock, calving, growth, vaccination, product yield, feeding, etc. Maintenance of records not only provides easy access to the important information as and when required but also helps in measuring the progress of the business. Let us understand the types of records that should be maintained, how they should be maintained and what the benefits of maintaining […]
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What is the Process of Silage Making is one of the most frequently asked question in Dairy farming. We have seen types of silage, production process, its advantage & importance in milk business, in previous article on Silage Making. Process of Silage Making Let us learn in detail, the Silage making process step by step from corn plantation with bag or pit method. How much should we sow for Process of Silage Making ? Per acre corn sowing for silage production For actual corn plantation, we can use calculation of plantation of corn on about 2 acres of […]
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Cow Farming and Buffalo Farming in India has been carried out by farmers since ages. Nowadays, new age entrepreneurs are seeing the next big opportunity in this sector. They must deal with minute details of this business. Cow Farming and Buffalo farming in India With the advent of new technologies and government promoting dairy farming in the country, by the way of launching new schemes and other tax benefits, cow and buffalo farming is seeing new rays of light. The dairy farmers in the country are now more equipped with new machinery, new medicines, and new veterinary clinics and also […]
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Introduction to Sexed Semen The concept of Sexed Semen for Dairy Farming is quite a new one, all though it has gained massive popularity within a span of few years. With the help of sexed semen, it is possible to produce off springs of desired sex, both male and female, by inseminating the semen having X or Y chromosome sperms. In other words, it can be said that it is a technology that sorts the X and Y bearing chromosomes under the gender selection of embryos to produce a progeny of the desired sex. The success rate of this technology […]
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What are the most exotic Cross Breeding Techniques for Dairy Farming in India ? As discussed in the earlier article on crossbred cows , Cross breeding” means mating the animals of different species to produce progeny or use their semen to produce crossbred off springs. There are many crossbreeds in of cattle and buffaloes used for Dairy Farming in India. With the advancement of science, many new techniques of cross breeding came into existence. Earlier, it was important for the dairy farmers to maintain the pure bred bulls and cows in their farms to produce progeny of the two. Now […]
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Dairy Farming in India struggled to cope with demand of ever increasing population of India – until the White Revolution or Operation Flood – the project lead by Dr Verghese Kurien. The white revolution also meant entry of Cross-bred cows in India, to combine high sustainability and disease resistant, heat resistant characteristics of Indian Desi Cows with that of Exotic cow breeds. What are the Best Cows for Dairy Farming in India? There’s no single answer to above question. We should be relying on cows bred in our own farm to rear Best cows for Dairy Farming. Modern dairy farmers […]
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Introduction to Dairy Farming in India Dairy farming in India has been prevalent from the times immemorial. It is generally viewed as family business that has been passed down from generations to generations. One of the foremost dairy farming persona was Gopal – Shri Krishna. In India, dairy farming and agriculture go hand in hand. The farmers rear cows and buffalo along with their full time agriculture business, to make some extra bucks. As the time passed, this so called family business found its way into a new era of dairy farming that was much more organized, technologically advanced and as […]
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Like any other business, you should know How to Run Profitable Dairy Farm even when Milk Prices are low. Milk prices at the producer level, are always fluctuating in the Indian dairy market. They change according to the global milk powder rates. At present they are at their record low levels. In states such as Maharashtra milk producers often have had to manage with per liter milk price of Rs. 16-17 . So, how do we survive and manage dairy farming business with such milk prices? If you are using the fodder grown in your own farm, you are forgoing […]
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