Lumpy skin disease in the cow: milk economy reduced production by 21%
The milk economy in Rajasthan is being harm by lumpy skin disease, which has reduce production by 21%.
More than 59,000 cattle, primarily cows, have died in Rajasthan due to an infectious lumpy skin disease that has spread to all 33 districts of the state.
The lumpy skin disease is still raging in Rajasthan, killing over 55,000 cattle since its outbreak in July.
The disease has now begun to have an impact on the state’s milk production, with collection dropping by more than 21% in August. According to a senior official with the Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation (RCDF). The outbreak has impacted milk production, and collection across the state has been reduce by 5-6 lakh liters per day.
However, because the department has made aggressive efforts to increase collection, the reduced group has not affected milk’s demand-supply ratio.
According to the (RCDF), approximately 27.54 lakh liters of milk were collect at collection centers in August. The collection has been reduce by 6 to 8 lakh liters per day, compared to the estimated 35 lakh liters per day. The estimate collection figure of 30 lakh liters per day in July was also not met. As it was 23.60 lakh per day, according to the official.
The milk collection is expect to increase during the monsoon season, which begins in Rajasthan in June.
Due to the disease, milk production in many areas of western Rajasthan’s Barmer districts has nearly ceased.
Bhikharam Choudhary, President of the Barmer Dugdh Utpadak Sahkari Samiti Limited (Milk Production Cooperative Committee). Two months ago, when the situation was normal. Total milk collection per day was around 15,000 liters, with cows accounting for 70% of the total.
“Due to lumpy, which has mostly affected the cows,” he explained, “we are hardly getting 1000litres of cow milk, which is also irregular.”
He stated that there are 72 operational milk federations in Barmer, 10% of which have gone non-operational due to their reliance on cow milk.
