Name: Mr. P. Rameshwaran
Family : 4 nos.
Village : Guptapara, South Andaman
Contact no: 9933265813
Total number of cattle:: 69
Total number of goat:: 50
Total number of desi poultry:: 60
Total number of local duck: 20
Name: Mr. P. Rameshwaran
Family : 4 nos.
Village : Guptapara, South Andaman
Contact no: 9933265813
Total number of cattle:: 69
Total number of goat:: 50
Total number of desi poultry:: 60
Total number of local duck: 20
Mr. P. Rameshwaran, aged 38 years, a progressive, innovative and scientific dairy farmer from Guptapara Village, South Andaman, is rearing livetsock especially dairy cattle since last 10 years. He initiated this dairy farm with 3 cows and presently he has 69 dairy cattle (cows: 33, heifer: 16, calf: 18 and bull: 2) of different crossbred cows of HF ,Jersey ,Kankrej and Tharparkar along with 50 goat, 60 local chicken and 20 local duck in his farm.Around, 15 to 20 animals are in milking stage at anytime ensuring him to despatch 160-200 litres of milk per day with revenue generation of Rs.1.75 to 2.25 lakhs per month with net profit of Rs.50,000/- per month. Beside Rs.2.50 lakhs is earned per year from other livestock and poultry enterprises. He has his own milking machine, power generator, 24 hrs pipeline, control crate, milk bottling and sealing unit, fodder production unit with hybride grasses, chaff cutter/chopper machine, milk product production unit, separate shed for cows, heifers and calfs and separate feed godown. He followed all scientific managemental practices for livestock development especially for dairy cattle.
However he suffered production and reproduction loss due to humpsore in dairy cattle. Almost 85% of cattle has suffered with humpsore with multiple locations of the body and the size varies from few cm to more than 12 cm. Age of affected animals were 1.5 -15 years with humpsore for more than 10 years. This disesase was spread from one to another animals. Symptoms like pruritus, loss of hair, exudation, ulceration and incristation in the sore were noticed in the humposore affected animals. The animals rubbed on the wall, pillers, trees or fences. Discharge of pure blood or blood mixed serum in soar area was observed and sore was covered with flies. He attempted to treat the humpsore with various treatment protocols from locally and traditionally prepared medicines to commercial ointments; but failed. Finally he received information that the Scientists of Animal Science Division, ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair invented and implemented a therapeutic method to treat the humpsore with combination of medicines for 45 days of treatment duration.
Scientists of the ICAR-CIARI capacitated his knowledge on aetiology, pathophysiology, clinical symptoms, treatment and control measures to control and prevent the humpsore disease. The treatment protocol was as follows: liquid soap was applied to remove the dirt or dust from the sore and washed with water, applied unripen papaya mist for 20-30 minutes for first three days, applied fly repellent and antiseptic ointment for 45 days, subcutaneous injection of Avermectin 200 µg per kg body weight on day 0, 15 and 30 and oral administration of Diethylcarbamazine citrate tablet 6 mg/kg body weight for 45 days. The sore was healed at 15 to 30 days of treatment depending upon the size of the sore. However, the injection, tablet and ointment to be continued throughout the course of treatment of 45 days. He followed the therapeutic protocol as suggested by the Scientists, ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair throughout the period of 45 days. Moreover, Scientists, ICAR-CIARI visited at 15-day interval to monitor the progress of the humpsore healing.
With technical support and therapeutic management of humpsore with this Tri-model therapy (Gau Maa Rakshak) from Scientists, ICAR-CIARI, he has improved the health, production and reproduction performances of dairy farm. The success/cure rate of the treatment was 93-95%. Milk yield increased to 85-86% in treated animals at the rate of 10-20%. Induction or bring to heat was observed in 75-78% animals and conceived in the first attempt. Further he observed that nuisance due to rubbing on the wall, pillers, trees or fences was stopped completely. The ugly looking skin on animals disappeared and value of the animals has been increased. The growth rate especially in young calves and heifers was improved significantly. The heifers attained puberty at earlier age than untreated animals. This treatment has reduced the ticks and lice in the body and the body coat shined. The infertility rate was consirderbly reduced and fertility rate improved in the treated animals. Tri-model treated animals were active and alert and feed intake has been increased singificantly.
With technical support and therapeutic management of humpsore with this tri-model therapy (Gau Maa Rakshak) from Scientists, ICAR-CIARI, he has gained higher revenue as well as profit from the dairy farm. The revenue has been increased to Rs.2.50 to 3.00 lakhs per month with profit from Rs.50,000.00 to 80,000.00 per month in the dairy farm after humpsore treatment. In addition, he has reduced the expenditure for treatment of infertility as humpsore treatment has enhanced the cyclicity and conception rate. Further the internal and external parasites were significantly reduced in humpsore treated animals as this treatment has taken care of parasite control in the dairy animals. Nuisance and stress levels were reduced and pleasant level was increased significantly. Therefore, wastage of nutrients was reduced and utilization of nutrients has been improved; this in turn has improved the health status, production and reproduction performances. Thus the tri-model based humpsore treatment has improved health, milk production and fertility rate with simultaneous reduction of cost of production in humpsore affected dairy cattle.
He appreciated and expressed his gratitude to the Director and Scientists of ICAR-CIARI for invention and implementation of such wonderful tri-model therapeutic methodology to treat humpsore in dairy cattle in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He suggested that this treatment needs to be implemented throughout the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and cover almost all the animals and all the dairy farmers should be benefitted. He planned to carry out the livestock enterprises in more scientific way to minimize the cost of investment and maximise the revenue as well as profit with the suggestion or advice from the Scientists of ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair.
Contributors : P. Perumal, D. Bhattacharya, A. K. De, L. B. Singh, S. K. Zamir Ahmed and B. A. Jerard