Boosting Dairy Industry in J&K: Holistic Program to focus on AI
Jammu and Kashmir is home to a thriving bovine industry, with about 31.45 lakh bovines the region accounts for 1.04% of India’s total bovine population. Out of the total bovine population, 10.90 lakh cattle and buffaloes are considered breedable and have the potential to contribute towards region’s milk economy. As per ISS-2020-21, the annual milk […]
Assam: Purabi Dairy organises Calf Show
The West Assam Milk Producers Cooperative Union Limited (WAMUL), popularly known as Purabi Dairy, on Saturday organised a mega Calf Show in Pathsala to highlight the effectiveness and benefits of artificial insemination. The day-long event was attended by Assam’s agriculture and dairy minister Atul Bora, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass, […]
Odisha government has launched the Sex Sorted Semen’ technology
Odisha government has launched the ‘Sex Sorted Semen’ technology under the artificial insemination programme in a bid to boost the state’s dairy sector and enhance the income of farmers. The technology will ensure up to 90 per cent chance of production of female calves with high genetic merit along with reduction of male progeny, thereby […]
Why liquid nitrogen is critical to the Indian animal husbandry sector ?
In an age of extremely long as well as short shelf lives and preservation periods for products, goods and materials wherein logistics, storage, transportation and distribution have been key to a successful supply chain management, liquid nitrogen has come to occupy a significant presence. As a cryogenic liquid with a boiling point of -196°C, this […]
Why liquid nitrogen is critical to the Indian animal husbandry sector ?
In an age of extremely long as well as short shelf lives and preservation periods for products, goods and materials wherein logistics, storage, transportation and distribution have been key to a successful supply chain management, liquid nitrogen has come to occupy a significant presence. As a cryogenic liquid with a boiling point of -196°C, this […]
Private sector innovations to improve productivity in Indian cattle
Over the last decade, India’s milk production has grown at an average annual rate of 5.5%. India has emerged as the largest milk-producing country globally, with an estimated production of 208 million tonnes in 2020-21. What is more interesting is that the organized private players are increasing their portfolio in milk procurement. The projections made […]
India targets avg milk yield from 1861 to 3000 Kgs/yr : Atul Chaturvedi
India’s journey from a milk deficit country to one of surplus has been momentous. Initiated in 1970, Operation Flood was arguably the world’s most ambitious dairy development programme that transformed India into one of the largest milk producers. India’s milk production rate in the past few decades has, in many ways, been symbolic of the […]
India targets avg milk yield from 1861 to 3000 Kgs/yr : Atul Chaturvedi
India’s journey from a milk deficit country to one of surplus has been momentous. Initiated in 1970, Operation Flood was arguably the world’s most ambitious dairy development programme that transformed India into one of the largest milk producers. India’s milk production rate in the past few decades has, in many ways, been symbolic of the […]
Karimnagar Dairy to encourage reproduction of only female calves
With the farming community saying “no” to male calves as they have turned burdensome and no use in the farm sector following the mechanisation of the farm activities, the Karimnagar Milk Producer Company aka Karimnagar Dairy has embarked upon a novel scheme of encouraging reproduction of only female calves through artificial insemination by using the […]
Can India’s dairy sector help in Covid vaccine transportation?
A major challenge in transporting Covid-19 vaccines is the ultra-cold temperatures required for the purpose. Except for the vaccine being developed by Oxford University-AstraZeneca, which can be stored in normal household refrigerators with a temperature range of 2 degrees to 8 degrees Celsius, all the others — Pfizer-BioNTech, Sputnik-V and Moderna — require a temperature of anywhere between minus 18 […]
