{"id":13978,"date":"2013-09-25T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2013-09-25T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:02:02","slug":"high-tech-dairy-farm-to-come-up-in-vithura-jersey-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/high-tech-dairy-farm-to-come-up-in-vithura-jersey-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Tech dairy farm to come up in Vithura Jersey farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to overcome the ever increasing problem of short supply of fresh milk, <strong>Vithura Jersey farm<\/strong>, managed by the district panchayat is undergoing modernisation to increase its production.<\/p>\n<p>When the modernization is completed, the farm is expected to increase production to <strong>3,000 litres<\/strong> a day. Work on the project has already started in 2011 at a cost of<strong> Rs. 17.03crore<\/strong>. According to the detailed project report drafted by Kerala State Housing Board who is in charge of the modernisation project, the output can be increased gradually to <strong>6,000 litres<\/strong> using sound animal husbandry practices.<\/p>\n<p>The project consists of a fully equipped medium-level automated cattle farm complex at the centre with amenities for raising quality milch cows. The automated dairy farm will have a cow pusher, an identification system, an activity-monitoring system, a production measurement and automatic weighing system and a teat-spraying system.<\/p>\n<p>The system will also store the performance report of each cow digitally in a \u2018<strong>dairy farm management information system<\/strong>\u2019. The system will allow farm operators to monitor and review milk production with daily reports sent to them through an e-mail and file-sharing system. The computerized system can also be connected to remote desktops for online review the performance of the farm.<\/p>\n<p>The farm has been conceptualised on a \u201c<strong>loose housing system pattern<\/strong>,\u201d in which animals are kept loose in an open paddock, except during milking, treatment and breeding and the farm can house 240 cows of hybrid varieties. The Vithura Jersey farm which spread across 80-hectare now have 150 head of cattle and goat-breeding units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to overcome the ever increasing problem of short supply of fresh milk, Vithura Jersey farm, managed by the district panchayat is undergoing modernisation to increase its production. When the modernization is completed, the farm is expected to increase production to 3,000 litres a day. Work on the project has already started in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}