HERDMANCoop
SOFTWARE
FOR HERD PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT IN DAIRY ANIMALS UNDER COOPERATIVE
SET UP
Developed
by Infovet, Mumbai. Email: herdmancom@hotmail.com
Cooeprative
movement has been the backbone for dairy industry in many countries
that contributes as high as 80-85% of the total milk procured
and processed. The movement enabled small animal holders to
come together and develop the dairy industry. The basic unit
is the primary dairy society in a village that covers around
500 – 1000 animals which in turn is federated into a block
level or a district level dairy cooperative federation. The
block-level or district-level federation provides milk collection
as well as veterinary input services. With globalization and
the WTO regime, the global milk market is opening for almost
all the players. There is now additional emphasis on quality
of milk. If the farmers under cooperatives are to survive, it
will be necessary to cut the cost of milk production by optimizing
the production and reproduction and at the same time avoid usage
of antibiotics, hormones and drugs to minimize residues in milk.
This would be possible if the entire set up is fine-tuned to
a rational animal health and productivity enhancement plan.
The new strategy calls for radical change in the way the animal
health personnel provide services to the farmers. The new approach
that has been tested by many developed countries constitutes:
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animals are continuously monitored by maintaining data of
individual animals and analysis on primary dairy society
/ village –basis;
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the common-source problems, such as, nutritional deficiencies,
sub-clinical infections and sub fertility are predicted,
investigated and corrective measures are taken to resolve
the primary causal factors;
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problems are predicted based on calculation of epidemiological
rates well before any clinical signs or damage is done.
The system relies more on correction of management, husbandry,
feed, minerals, etc., rather than only use of drugs or hormones;
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the dairy management activities are not farmer-perceived
but predicted based on the records which enables identification
of problems at the earliest and also encourages participation
of farmers in health maintenance.The central issue is maintaining
individual animal data in a format that can be entered,
compiled, transferred to the incharge veterinarians who
can analyze and suggest corrective measures. This approach
is also called ‘herd approach’. With introduction
of computers it has become easy to organize and analyze
the data with the help of software HERDMANCoop
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