Centre asks NDDB to estimate India's milk demand

The country does not know how much milk is needed despite its growth having exceeded targets

‘Ethnoveterinary medicine will be a game changer for dairy in India’

Down To Earth speaks to Meenesh Shah, chairman, NDDB on EVM use in the Indian dairy sector

‘Ethnoveterinary medicine is a simple, cost-effective, farmer-friendly tool’

Down To Earth speaks to Anil Kr Bayati, managing director of Sabar Dairy in Sabarkantha, Gujarat about the use of EVM at the dairy

India's cow crisis: The full coverage

All that you need to know about what's wrong with India's cow laws and the problems they are leading to in a five-part series

A revolution in white

A church-inspired people's dairy project in Kerala turns out to be a trailblazer

Mr. Milkman is here

A new breed of dairy farmers is milking the growing demand for healthy, safe food

GATT goes sour

JAMAICA

Why Union Budget 2022-23 will help India’s dairy and livestock farmers

Reduced alternate minimum tax and surcharge reduction for cooperative societies, increased allocation several schemes as well as livestock health …

Cooperative in spirit

Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model

Food security for livestock

Focus must shift from supercows to cattlefeed  

Dolly's dark cousin

Scientists in India claim that they will soon clone the buffalo

World AMR Awareness Week: How ethnoveterinary medicines combat antimicrobial resistance

The biggest USP of ethnoveterinary medicines is that they can be prepared at home; simple ingredients of EVMs can work against several …

Changes in livestock breeding needed to boost A2 milk: study

The frequency of A2 casein is high in indigenous breeds of India as compared to that of exotic, indicating an opportunity for Indian dairy …

Cutting antimicrobial use, promoting good farming practices can enhance farm productivity

A six-year study conducted by UK researchers showed that these steps can help increase milk yield and fertility parameters and drop clinical …

Carving oases in drought-prone Kutch

The Shree Vivekananda Research and Training Institute has made a name for itself, helping villagers in Kutch district. Among its innumerable …

A silent white revolution

Women living in a non-descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent …

Natural-born killers

A naturally occuring bacterium in milk can save the losses incurred by mal1scale dairy farmers who do not own refrigeration facilities

AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector

Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality

Skimmed milk

Lactalis to milk more in India. Why that may worry some

French dairy giant has been in the news for allegedly cheating farmers back home, for its secretive business model and for the quality of its products

Cattle pollute San Joaquin air

Dairies in the US town will need air-operating permits

New diet regime for calves

Importing cattle growth hormone hits snags

A growth hormone that the National Dairy Development Board seeks to import because it can increase milk yield by as much as 30 per cent, has run …

RELOCATION OF DAIRIES