Cow yields 38.15 litres of milk, owner bags first prize at Dasara

A cattle from Anekal participating successful the Dasara cattle milking contention held astatine J.K. Grounds successful Mysuru yielded a full of 38.15 litres of beverage connected Saturday, starring its proprietor Ajay to container the archetypal prize of ₹1,00,000.

The winning cattle yielded 21.5 litres successful the greeting and different 16.65 litres successful the evening, taking the full quantity of beverage yielded successful a time to 38.15 litres

A full of 15 cows from antithetic districts of Karnataka participated successful the State-level cattle milking contention organised by the Farmers’ Dasara Sub Committee and Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences.

The cattle belonging to Sanjeev from Chittenahalli colony successful Periyapatna taluk of Mysuru territory yielded a full of 37.15 litres, facilitating its proprietor to container the 2nd prize, which carried a currency prize of ₹80,000. The cattle yielded 20.15 litres successful the greeting and 17 litres successful the evening.

The cattle owned by Harshit Gowda, a nonmigratory of Benchakalpalya successful Nagarbhavi successful Bengaluru came a adjacent 3rd aft it yielded 19 litres successful the greeting and 18.10 litres successful the evening, totalling 37.10 litres. The currency prize for 3rd presumption was ₹60,000.

Nishanth Shivaramu’s cattle from Ganjam successful Srirangapatna came fourth, yielding 36.85 litres including 17.80 litres successful the greeting and 19.05 litres successful the evening. The 4th prize fetched its proprietor a currency prize of ₹40,000.

Minister for Animal Husbandry K. Venkatesh distributed the prizes to the owners of the cows that yielded the highest quantity of beverage during the competition. The owners of each different cows that participated successful the contention volition besides beryllium encouraged with a consolation prize of ₹ 10,000 and a memento.

The Cow Milking Competition attracted a ample fig of funny visitors to J.K. Grounds, who not lone watched the contention eagerly, but besides sought accusation connected cattle rearing, their feeding and the attraction they needed from the cattle owners.

Deputy Director of Department of Animal Husbandry, Mysuru, Nagaraju said the fig of radical thronging the venue of the cattle milking contention was itself impervious astir the involvement successful dairying among young farmers. He called upon the dairy farmers to marque usage of the authorities schemes disposable successful the sector.