Dr. Sanjeev Ramchandra Pawar

Excellent !! Short but more informative article. Mineral Nutrition is the most neglected part by the farmers. There is need to educate dairy farmers on this issue to regulate animals reproductive performance. This is one of the way to get one calf per year by regulating fertility and profitable business.

Just to maintain proper health of animals, yes, only roughage is to be fed to them to maintain proper ecosystem of rumen. However, to get more milk production we have to supply more Proteins, energy as per their production requirements. Energy is the most limiting nutrients in the diet of dairy animals. Cereal grains are cheaper source of energy but leads to lactoacidosis. Thus, grains has a limit ...