: In Maharashtra, milk production is declining as dairy cattle struggle with rising temperatures #IndiaNEWS Sunil Patil, a farmer from Chikhali, a village in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur has three buffaloes

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In Maharashtra, milk production is declining as dairy cattle struggle with rising temperatures #IndiaNEWS
Sunil Patil, a farmer from Chikhali, a village in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur has three buffaloes and seven cows, producing an average of 100 litres of milk per day. However, since 2018, Sunil has reported a decline in production, down to 75 litres to 80 litres per day during the summers from March to June. Heat stress is suspected to be the cause. His attempts to cool them down are resource-intensive: they are bathed twice daily and kept under fans. During the summers, they are fed dry fodder. This is another reason attributed to low milk production. Green fodder promotes better health in cattle, and in turn, better milk. But it is expensive in the summer months and Patil feeds it to his cattle only when he can afford it.Around two crore (20 million) farmers from over two lakh (2,00,000) villages across the country engage in the dairy industry, with at least six lakh (6,00,000) milk producers depending solely on the industry for a livelihood. A majority of them are women, according to the National Dairy Development Board. A Lancet study finds that increasing temperatures could reduce milk production by 25% by 2085 in India’s arid to semi-arid areas.A recent review study found that rising ambient...Read more

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