Impact of TANUVAS Grand Supplement in Dairy Cattle
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2019-01
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The dairy industry plays an important role in socio economic
development of India. The main thrust of dairy industry today is to improve
the efficiency of milk production through better understand the complex
microbial interactions governing efficient nutrient utilization by ruminal
microbes. Field trials conducted to study the performance of TANUVAS
GRAND (Gruel Rooted Additive Nourishment Drops) supplement on
augmenting milk production of dairy cattle in ten villages of Erode district.
03 Dairy farmers each village were selected for this trail and constituted a
sample size of 30 milking cows with the average milk production of 8.5
litre/day/cow for analyze the milk yield and benefit cost ratio. Milk yield
data collected in two stages viz, before and after administration of GRAND
supplement. GRAND supplement administered animals produced the
average milk yield of 9.20 litre/day/cow with the benefit cost ratio of 2.06,
whereas before administration of GRAND supplement the same animals
yielded of 8.58 litre milk/day from an animal with the benefit cost ratio of
1.85. The farmers realized the additional benefit cost of Rs 23 from an
animal by including GRAND supplement in the feeding pattern of dairy
cattle.
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TNV_LRI_2019_7(1)19-21
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Veterinary Science