Economics of milk production

Part 1 book "Automatic milking" includes content: Milk in the news, socio-economic aspects of automatic milking, motivations of dutch farmers to invest in an automatic milking system or a conventional milking parlour, economic efficiency of automatic milking systems with specific emphasis on increases in milk production,... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Small-scale livestock production" includes content: Herd selection, feeding dairy animals, dairy management, milk and milking, diseases and their control, dairy performance indices, economics of dairy production, flock selection, growing lambs and kids, feeding sheep and goats, breeding management, health management, economics of goat production.

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Part 2 book "Textbook of animal science" includes content: animals in agricultural operations, breeding management, control of diseases, record keeping, economics of milk production, poultry farming.

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The genetic determinism of the calving and suckling performance of beef cows is little known whereas these maternal traits are of major economic importance in beef cattle production systems. This paper aims to identify QTL regions and candidate genes that affect maternal performance traits in the Blonde d’Aquitaine breed.

13p vinarcissa 21-03-2023 4 1   Download

Reference materials are an important tool in ensuring the validity of the test results efficiently and economically. National Institute for Food Control has implemented several studies, characterization of microbiology chemistry for food and feeding stuffs certified reference materials (CRM) in order to support laboratories in control and maintaining test results quality.

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Endometritis is a prevalent uterine disease in postpartum cows. The disease reduces fertility performance and milk yield, and subsequently, productivity and profitability of dairy farms. The reduction in performance is associated with considerable economic losses on dairy farms.

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Gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN), liver flukes (Fasciola hepatica) and bovine lungworms (Dictyocaulus viviparus) are the most important parasitic agents in pastured dairy cattle. Endoparasite infections are associated with reduced milk production and detrimental impacts on female fertility, contributing to economic losses in affected farms.

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The characterization of the technical practices involved in the production of kindirmou constitutes a key element in its valorization. Assuming that the quality of the kindirmou is based on the specific practices to the territory, an analysis of the technical practices of the kindirmou in relation with the quality was carried out in the Adamawa region of Cameroon.

18p chauchaungayxua12 29-07-2021 12 1   Download

Theileria annulata is an important tick-borne haemoprotozoan organism affecting dairy animals worldwide including India. It causes enormous economic losses in cattle and buffaloes in terms of reduced milk production, increased infertility and high mortality rate. The present study was undertaken to estimate the various haematological changes in cattle infected with T. annulata.

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Health traits are of significant economic importance to the dairy industry due to their effects on milk production and associated treatment costs. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a means to identify associated genomic variants and thus reveal insights into the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases.

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Goats (Capra hircus), one of the first domesticated species, are economically important for milk and meat production, and their broad geographical distribution reflects their successful adaptation to diverse environmental conditions.

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India holds a reputable position in terms of milk production and number of milch animals throughout the world. The real question arises when the quality of this milk and milk products is adjudged as not-suitable for export from India to many countries. The quality of milk has direct relationship with the knowledge on animal husbandry and dairy business-related practices amongst marginal as well as commercial milch animal farm owners.

11p trinhthamhodang11 27-04-2021 16 1   Download

The on farm trial was conducted during two consecutive years 2018-19 and 2019-20 at two adopted villages of Deendayal Research Institutes Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ambajogai District Beed (Maharashtra). The trials were conducted for 60 days to study the effect of probiotics on milk yield and its production economics. The trials were laid out in a randomized block design consisting of three treatments with four replications of each.

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The nationwide imposition of lockdown due to Covid-19 adversely affected various agriculture allied occupations especially livestock and poultry sector. For dairy farmers reduced price of milk, lack of transportation means and lack of veterinary aids were major problems faced during the lockdown. Poultry farmers incurred massive losses due to rumours associated with chicken which caused collapse in demand for poultry products. Top ranked problems faced by poultry farmers include reduced availability of improved breeds, price and sale of egg or meat.

5p caygaocaolon11 21-04-2021 16 1   Download

Economic losses by brucellosis in animals owing to abortions, premature births, decreased milk production and repeat breeding and may lead to temporary or permanent infertility in infected livestock. Economic losses due to brucellosis in livestock are considerable in an agrarian country like India.

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The present study was conducted to find out cost and returns obtained from the crossbreed cow milk production in Satara district of Maharashtra. Multistage sampling technique was used for this study. For this study Satara district was purposively selected. In Satara district six villages were selected randomly from the two tehsils in satara district. The 90 sample farmers were selected from the six villages on the basis of milk production obtained by the farmers...

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Dairy sector in India plays an important role in the socio-economic development and constitutes an important segment of the rural economy. Dairy industry provides livelihood to millions of homes ensuring supply of quality milk and milk products to the people in both urban and rural areas. India is world‟s largest milk producers accounting for around 17% of the global milk production and known as „oyster‟ of the global dairy industry.

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Azolla is a free floating, rapidly growing aquatic fern on water surface. It is one of the most nutritive aquatic plants, owing to its high protein and carotenoid contents and of generally good amino acid profile. Traditional supplements based on oilseed cakes are expensive and cannot fulfill the required nutrients to animals. Forage-based economical feeding strategies are required to reduce production cost of quality livestock products. Productivity of dairy animals largely depends of efficient feeding management.

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Brucellosis is known as undulant fever or Malta fever, caused by the genus Brucella. It is the most common human zoonosis. The disease is worldwide distributed and causes significant economic losses. In animals, it causes abortion, reduction in milk production, and infertility. While brucellosisin humans is a debilitating disease with various clinical manifestations that may lead to death in some cases.

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The combined effects of prilled fat and yeast culture (YC) mixture supplementation were investigated on the production performance and economics in 18 early lactating Murrah buffaloes. Buffaloes were divided into two groups as control group (CON group) and supplemented group (SG). CON group was fed wheat straw, maize fodder and concentrate mixture, while SG was supplemented additionally with 100g prilled fat and 25g Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC)/day from -21day prepartum to 90 days postpartum.

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