The country’s first hi-tech dairy farm in the government sector is coming up at Kulathupuzha in Kollam districts.
The Kulathupuzha is funded under the union government’s National Project for Cattle and Buffalo Breeding. State of-the art technology will be used. The farm would house around 230 cows and each would carry a transponder on the neck. There will be programmable feeders.
There will be an in-house system for cooling the animals besides automatic scratching machines. Cleaning of the cow shed will be done automatically six times a day. Milking will be done by 12 automatic milking parlors at a time. From the parlor it directly goes to chilling tanks and from there for packing.
The government intends to market the milk from the farm as a branded item. About 5,000 liters of milk a day was expected from the farm. Female calves will be distributed to farmers around the area at a reasonable price. This will enable satellite dairy units to come up around the hi-tech farm.
Prof.John Kurakar
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