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Farmers response to Balanced Feeding ffor Dairy Animals

Volume : 62
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 824 - 827
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Abstract


The study revealed that 10 per cent of dairy farmers adopted ration for milch animals.The cows and bufalloes were not adequately fed with green fodder and concentrates. The dairy animals were mainly maintained on whatever byproducts available in the farm. The green roughage fed to the animals was non-leguminous in nature.High cost of concentrates,lack of knowledge on the importance of scientific feeding.not pursuing dairying as a business proposition and less or no profit in the dairy enterprise were most frequently expressed as the reasons for not adopting balanced ration.

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824 - 827
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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