Choice of Dairying in the Subcontinent: Cattle or Buffalo

Abstract

Traditionally dairying is of three main purposes, 1. Produce male calves for plough purposes, 2. Use of dung cakes and manure for Agriculture, 3. Milk production. Modern successful dairy farming includes slowly adopting farm mechanization to reduce the labor component and use of novel concepts like random checking of milk urea estimation is helpful in feed efficiency of a herd [1],