Practice Name:

Increasing Milk Yield in Cattle

Affected Animal	Cattle
Affected Animal (Scientific Name)	Bos Taurus
Affected Animal (Taxonomy)	Bovidae
Affected Animal (Vernacular)	Gai, Gau
Category	Veterinary Care
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Disease Attak Stage	At any stage virus may attacks the animal.
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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Documented by Dr S Vedavati
City / District	Tirupati
KVK District	RASS – ARKVK, Karakambadi post, Renigunta mandal chittor district -517001
Address	Tirupati ,Andhra Pradesh
Languages Spoken	Telugu
Vocation	Farmer
State	Andhra Pradesh
PIN Code	517001

PAS_1	"Maganbhai Khoont feeds the cattle with a mixture of cotton ball, dried beans of ‘desi baval’ (Acacia nilotica) and kernels of pearl millet. All these ingredients are boiled in water and the animal is fed with the boiled mixture at the time of milking. According to Maganbhai, the inner kernel from mango stone may also be added to the cattle feed to increase milk production (Honey Bee, 8(4):17, 1997)."
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Agro Ecological Zone	Deccan Plateau, hot arid eco region (8.3)
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Procedure of Use	The cattle breeders of Andhra Pradesh increase the milk yield in their animals by using the fruits of nalla jidi ginjalu or markingnut tree(Semecarpus anacardium). They soak four to five fruits of markingnut tree in a mud pot for two days. These are then ground and mixed with rice or rice-bran, and fed to the cattle. This is believed to increase the milk yield. <p> The other alternative is a mixture made from the roots of chettu veela (Algeria nervosa)</b>, roots of paradu teega (Algeria pylosa)</b>, Palm-jaggery, turmeric and vamu (Ajma).
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Practice ID	KNW0010000000858
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1306
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