Practice Name:

Increasing Milk Yield in Cows

Affected Animal	Cattle
Affected Animal (Scientific Name)	Bos Taurus
Affected Animal (Taxonomy)	Bovidae
Affected Animal (Vernacular)	Gai, Gau
Category	Veterinary Care
Disease
Disease Attak Stage	At any stage virus may attacks the animal.
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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Narayana Siddi
City / District	Uttara Kannada
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra , Agricultural College and Research Institute,TNAU, Madurai -625001
Address	Madurai ,Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farmer
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	581401

PAS_1	"Women farmer Shantaben Shivabhai Ramani of Rajkot district treat problem of increased milk production in buffalo. To increase milk production, a buffalo is fed with 250 g of cooked rice twice a day. The production increases considerably within a week (Honey Bee 8(3): 13, 1997)."
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Tamil Nadu uplands and leeward flanks of south Sahyadris, hot, dry semi-arid eco-subregion (8.1)
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Procedure of Use	Narayana Siddi from Chittinahalli village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka uses the tubers of byne plant to increase the milk yield in cows. He cooks one kilogrammes of tubers of byne plant and feeds it to the cow for nearly one month every day after calving. This increases the milk yield of cows.
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Practice ID	KNW0010000000756
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1296
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN