ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS

Milking of dairy cows was characteristically a backbreaking job which constituted great barrier to the social life of dairy farmers in the past. Having gone through different stages of development over the years, the introduction of robotic milking system (RMS) most recently brought readical changes...

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मुख्य लेखक: OGUNSINA , B. S.
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प्रकाशित: The Faculty of Agriculture Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 2020
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description Milking of dairy cows was characteristically a backbreaking job which constituted great barrier to the social life of dairy farmers in the past. Having gone through different stages of development over the years, the introduction of robotic milking system (RMS) most recently brought readical changes to milk harvesting, offering great opportunities for countries with adequate potentials to expand capacity in dairy farming. This paper reports the success of robotic milking technology sequel to a visit to some dairy farms in Israel during a Mashav training. Emphasis was laid on the Lely Astronaut Milking Robot (a robotic milking system commonly used on dairy farms in Europe, United States and Israel). Considering the ever increasing worldwide demand for dairy products and the amazing prospects that RMS provides for milk harvesting in dairy farming, the Nigerian dairy industry was appraised with the view to revive it from the nauseating level to which it has deteriorated. Thou the importation of foreign high milk-yielding breeds of cow has failed in the past and Nigeria may not yet be ripe for RMS, vested policy interest is advocated, especially to uprade indigenous dairy products such as the warakasi (cheese), nono (fermented or soured skimmed milk), kindirmo (fermented whole milk) and manshanu (butter) through an integrated rural networking with the Fulani pastoralists. These local dairy products when upgraded to international standard promises to boost income obtainable from dairy farming in Nigeria.
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spelling oai:ojs2.ija.oauife.edu.ng:article-5602020-10-07T12:47:14Z ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS OGUNSINA , B. S. Robotic milking system, Dairy, Fulani pastoralist, Nigeria Milking of dairy cows was characteristically a backbreaking job which constituted great barrier to the social life of dairy farmers in the past. Having gone through different stages of development over the years, the introduction of robotic milking system (RMS) most recently brought readical changes to milk harvesting, offering great opportunities for countries with adequate potentials to expand capacity in dairy farming. This paper reports the success of robotic milking technology sequel to a visit to some dairy farms in Israel during a Mashav training. Emphasis was laid on the Lely Astronaut Milking Robot (a robotic milking system commonly used on dairy farms in Europe, United States and Israel). Considering the ever increasing worldwide demand for dairy products and the amazing prospects that RMS provides for milk harvesting in dairy farming, the Nigerian dairy industry was appraised with the view to revive it from the nauseating level to which it has deteriorated. Thou the importation of foreign high milk-yielding breeds of cow has failed in the past and Nigeria may not yet be ripe for RMS, vested policy interest is advocated, especially to uprade indigenous dairy products such as the warakasi (cheese), nono (fermented or soured skimmed milk), kindirmo (fermented whole milk) and manshanu (butter) through an integrated rural networking with the Fulani pastoralists. These local dairy products when upgraded to international standard promises to boost income obtainable from dairy farming in Nigeria. The Faculty of Agriculture Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 2020-10-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article application/pdf https://ija.oauife.edu.ng/index.php/ija/article/view/560 Ife Journal of Agriculture; Vol. 23 No. 1 (2008): Ife Journal of Agriculture; 147-163 0331-6351 eng https://ija.oauife.edu.ng/index.php/ija/article/view/560/443 Copyright (c) 2020 Ife Journal of Agriculture
spellingShingle Robotic milking system, Dairy, Fulani pastoralist, Nigeria
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ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title_full ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title_fullStr ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title_full_unstemmed ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title_short ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC MILKING OF DAIRY COWS IN NIGERIA: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS
title_sort adaptation of robotic milking of dairy cows in nigeria constraints and prospects
topic Robotic milking system, Dairy, Fulani pastoralist, Nigeria
topic_facet Robotic milking system, Dairy, Fulani pastoralist, Nigeria
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