Also, the census shows a sharp increase in backyard poultry
Current Affairs:The most recent domesticated animals numbers in the nation demonstrate a sharp increment in cross-reproduced and indigenous female dairy cattle populace, with a going with ascend in the quantity of milch creatures. As indicated by the twentieth Livestock Census, gave on Wednesday, the complete cows populace has risen imperceptibly, in the wake of falling in earlier years. What’s more, a prior slide in indigenous (desi) dairy cattle populace has been hindered after 2012.
Dairy cattle populace in 2019 is 192.49 million, about 0.8 percent more than in the 2012 enumeration, when it had dropped to 190.9 million from the 199.07 million of the past registration in 2007.
The expansion was fundamentally determined by a sharp increment in cross-reproduced cows that give higher milk amounts and furthermore because of a higher female indigenous cows populace. The quantity of female cross-reproduced cows has ascended from 33.76 million of every 2012 to 46.95 million, an expansion of 39 percent. The indigenous female cows populace rose 10 percent from 89.22 million of every 2012 to 98.17 million.
Be that as it may, the quantity of indigenous steers has gone down from 2012 to 2019. The quantity of milch creatures has gone up by 6 percent. Cross-reproduced creatures contributed around 28 percent to India’s all out milk generation of 188 million tons in 2018-19, it is assessed. The wild ox populace expanded to 109.85 million from 108.7 million out of 2012.
“The most recent numbers show why India’s milk creation has developed at more than 6 percent (every year) since the previous couple of years, in spite of dry spell and falling costs, as the quantity of milk-bearing creatures is consistently rising,” said R S Khanna, a senior dairy expert.
Aditi Mehta 