The Ultimate Revelation Of Cattle Farming.

Cattle Farming

Cattle are the fundamental resources of our every day food utilization. From the traditional days itself, they need to become an important part of our livelihood, especially for milk. Those cattle, which provide milk are called milch/dairy animals, Those cattle, which it uses for meat purpose is called beef cattle and are utilized for work object are labour purpose, are called draught cattle. The period after the birth of a calf, when a cow starts to supply milk, is named lactation period. We can improve milk creation by expanding this lactation period. For example, the foreign breeds like Jersey, Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss, have long lactation period while local breeds like Scotch-Highland, Red Sindhi, Sahiwal, and Brahman, Brangus are known for their disease-resistant trait. The breeding of these two varieties help us to enhance the quantity and quality of the milk production

Types of cattle farming

Basically, there are two types of animals raised in cattle farming, one is for producing milk and beef while the other is for doing labour work.
In Nepal and India, cattle farming for beef production is strictly prohibited as they are treated as holy animals, so the demand for dairy animals will be high here.
In other countries, the demand for beef generating animals is as high as a dairy cow.

Beef cattle:- Devon, Jersey, British white, Highland, Dexter, Holsten, Ayrshire, Long-horn etc

Milk cattle:- Jersey, Holstein-Fresian, Aryshere, Brown-swiss, Shorthorn etc

Importance of cattle farming

It is important for various factors one of the few are listed below:

For the raise in the Living standard

For the growing meat demand

For the ever-growing demand for Milk and dairy products.

 The major importance is for its rich manure obtained from the cattle excreta which is almost the all-powerful influence in organic farming.

To increase in GDP income for an agricultural country