Asia Given Eight Golden Rules for Sustainable Dairy Farming
GLOBAL – There are eight golden rules to observe for a sustainable dairy future, according to advisers at the World Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
7 October 2015
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Each rule has been delivered to smallholder producers in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand, giving short and simple direction for dairy farm management in the tropics.
Printed in four languages – English, Thai, Bangala and Myanmar – the illustrated leaflets each describing each rule have been distributed to over 15,000 producers.
The rules are:
- Calf rearing
- Rearing weaned heifers
- Feeding milking cows
- Breeding adult cows
- Looking after herd health
- Heat stress management
- Housing dairy stock
- Producing quality milk
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