Blueprints for Tropical Dairy Farming

Increasing Domestic Milk Production in Developing Countries

John Moran, Philip Chamberlain

• Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781486306466
• eBook ISBN: 9781486306480
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Animal Husbandry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Blueprints for Tropical Dairy Farming provides insight into the logistics, infrastructure and management required for the development of small and large dairy farms in tropical developing countries. Farmers will learn how to improve the welfare, milk quality and productivity of their dairy herds. This book complements author John Moran's five previous books on the principles of tropical dairy farming.The manual covers a wide range of topics related to ensuring the sustainability of dairy production systems in tropical developing countries, such as South and East Asia, Africa and Central America. It also provides guidelines for the best management practices of large-scale, more intensive dairy systems. While smallholder farms are the major suppliers of milk in the tropics, many larger farms are becoming established throughout the tropics to satisfy the increasing demands for fresh milk.Blueprints for Tropical Dairy Farming will be a valuable resource for farmers and stockpeople who want to improve the productive performance of their dairy herds, farm advisers who can assist farmers to achieve this aim, educators who develop training programs for farmers or who train dairy advisers in the basics of dairy production technology, and other stakeholders in tropical dairy production, such as local agribusiness, policy makers and research scientists. National and international agencies will learn new insights into the required long-term logistics for regional dairy development, while potential investors will acquire knowledge into intensive tropical dairy farming.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Contents
• About the authors
• Other books and technical manuals written by the senior author
• Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgement of The Crawford Fund
• Chemical warning
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The diversity of dairy farming systems in tropical Asia
• Chapter 3 Addressing the key constraints to tropical dairy farming
• Chapter 4 Physical features on smallholder farms
• Chapter 5 Physical features on large-scale farms
• Chapter 6 Managing the human resources on tropical dairy farms
• Chapter 7 Best management practices for smallholder dairy farmers
• Chapter 8 Best management practices on large-scale, intensively managed dairy farms
• Chapter 9 Developing your observation skills
• Chapter 10 Addressing the problems of stock welfare
• Chapter 11 Introducing the concept of farm business management
• Chapter 12 Regional smallholder dairy development programs
• Chapter 13 The final words
• Appendix 1 Temperature Humidity Index
• Appendix 2 Signals for assessing healthy and sick cows
• Appendix 3 Questionnaire for Indonesian dairy farmers
• Appendix 4 A floor plan of a 50-cow dairy shed in Pakistan
• Appendix 5 A plan for a free stall shed
• Appendix 6 A plan for cooling a free stall shed
• Abbreviations
• Units of measurements
• Glossary
• References and further reading
• Index