Vol. 10, Issue 7 (2021)

Author(s):
Pratik Ramesh Wankhade, Hari Om Pandey, Mukesh Singh, AKS Tomar, Cherryl Dimphna Miranda, Arun Somagond, Prachurya Biswal, Med Ram Verma, Gyanendra Kumar Gaur and Triveni Dutt

Abstract:
Milk production is the water intensive process which demands huge amount of water. Due to changing climatic scenario, it is worthy to understand and quantify the water usage for various activity at the dairy farms. In this study, we measured the consumptive water usage in the milking parlor for crossbred Vrindavani cows which were machine or hand milked. Higher quantity of water usage was recorded for machine milked Vrindavani cows (42 L/animal/day) compared to hand milked cows (28 L/animal/day). Further, computation of water usage based on per kg of milk yield revealed that machine milked cows consumed less water (4.0 L) than hand milked (4.26 L) Vrindavani cows.