Selvaraj, P.Srinivasan, S.R.Dhanapalan, P.TANUVAS2016-06-232016-06-232007http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67877Dairy Husbandry became a precision farming system with the single most objective of “cost cutting” and “profit maximization”. The challenge in feeding high producing dairy cows is to maximize dry matter intake and energy density of the ration, while maintaining the rumen health. The major risk to rumen health in current feeding practices in India is feeding too much readily digestible starch diet (e.g. finely ground grain) or too little good quality fiber (roughage). Owing to shrinking pasture land and water resources, green fodder or roughage feeding was very minimal today.enArticle