1Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Dairy Technology, Patna-800014, Bihar
2Bihar Veterinary College, Patna -800014, Bihar
*Corresponding author: akjha.in@gmail.com
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
Precision dairy farming is one of the technology oriented production practices that is seen as the future of the dairy farming. Precision dairy farming involves technology enabled farming practices which are supposed to play a great role in the future. Particularly in the pandemic situations like COVID-19, it has become imperative to go for application of technologies in all facets of human endeavour including dairy farming. Precision dairy farming involves the use of technologies to measure physiological, behavioural, and production indicators on individual animals. Precision dairy farming technologies help dairy farmers refine their management practices to ascertain farm efficiency. Precision dairy farming assures improvement of animal well-being with respect to conventional farming methods. The precision dairy farming is being effectively adopted worldwide with the objectives to (a) maximize animal per-formance, (b) early detection of diseases in individual animal, (c) management of herd-health and production problems and (d) lessen the use of medication through preventive health measures. Maximization of potential of individual animal, early detection of disease and minimization of the use of medication lead to better farm efficiency and profit realization. One of the advantages of precision dairy farming is that while dealing with the animals, there exist several practical and ethical concerns, however precision dairy farming assures improvement of animal well-being with respect to conventional farming methods. There are a number of precision farming technologies, which can be used to monitor, manage and control various parameters including pertaining to animal health, feeding and management to enhance productivity, efficiency and income by taking appropriate decisions in time.
