| |June 20219These include poor cattle productivity, lack of clean milk production, lack of quality input / service providers, lack of focus on Research & Development, and fresh investments. Higher cattle productivity, i.e. higher output in terms of milk and for a longer time, is a must to double farmers' income. This can be achieved by improving animal health, including livestock fertility, by ensuring high quality diet through nutrition management to the livestock. This can be done through various available technological tools. What the focus should also be on is to improve awareness regarding these tools, and to also make them more affordable for more farmers.Monitoring the health of livestock, especially cows, with the help of wearables is an innovative solution. Livestock wearables include ear tags, collars, ankle and tail bracelets, and even belly belts. They can serve as farmers' eyes and ears, allowing them to monitor and manage animals with the flick of a finger on a smartphone. The availability of real-time data from the field can help in taking better decisions at every level.We for instance, have an innovative and comfortable non-invasive Internet of Things (IoT) animal wearable that is designed for detecting the onset of the cow's heat cycle. Developed with a specialized algorithm, it is designed to ensure timely breeding with high success rates. The software leads to improved productivity and better animal health, which results in increased yield, and better quality of milk. Technological solutions can also help in meeting the demands of two of the most prominent agriculture trends: labour shortages and the need for farming operations to expand.Another important aspect where technology can and needs to play a bigger role is a Fat / SNF measuring machine or Internet of Things (IoT) based Fat / SNF system that sends data to the cloud in realtime. The data is analyzed through cloud computing, and calibrate it centrally. The use of Artificial Intelligence to analyse the data can lead to quality result in no time. Such a solution can help farmers get fair payment of their milk, and can also enhance transparency in the milk procurement system. In the Indian context, the focus on R&D needs to be expanded. Private companies like ours are already doing a lot of work in coming up with innovative solutions and products. What is needed is that the efforts are scaled up, and deployed on a larger scale so that benefits can reach dairy farmers in every nook and corner of the country. The solutions need to be made affordable too so that milk farmers, big and small, are able to avail of these solutions. The need of the hour is to combine business intelligence and digital innovation to elevate the global standing of Indian dairy industry. Data can be converted to useful information, and that information can be used for better decision making, and that can lead to an improvement in efficiency at various level. Higher cattle productivity can be achieved by improving animal health, including livestock fertility, by ensuring high quality diet through nutrition management to the livestock
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