Stopping Cotton feed increased milk yield by 25 per cent with in 3 days in Buffalo

Farmer Knowledge Centre (Kisan Gyan Kendra)


Press Note


Dated: 4 March 2012 Ref. No. 2789/326:25 PM

Stopping Cotton feed increased milk yield by 25 per cent with in 3 days in Buffalo


Advisory from Free Telephone Helpline of Kisan Gyan Kendra (Farmer Knowledge Centre) helping farmers of north India



Hisar 4 March 2012 (Lokvaani)


A farmer Mr Nachhatar Singh from Sirsa district consulted on Free Telephone Helpline (Number 01662 229163 from with in India +911662229163 from out side India ) of Farmer Knowledge Centre (Kisan Gyan Kendra) last week. His problem about buffalo who recently delivered, yielding milk untimely baffled the experts as they never heard about such problem before. After carefully listening to farmer's prblem, experts at Free helpline suggested him to stop any oilseed cake of Cotton suspecting it to be of BT cotton (a Genetically Modified plant) which is toxic for animals.


Today Farmer Knowledge Centre contacted the farmer again to ask about the progress of animmal. The farmer reported that he stopped oilseed cake of Cotton and replaced it with oilseed cake of mustard. To his surprise with in three days not only his buffalo started yielding milk timely but, the milk yield also increased from 8 liters per day to 10 liters per day.


According to Dr Sudhir Kumar Kaura, director of Kisan Gyan Kendra and a senior agricultural scientist told Lokvaani News agency that farmers are generally unaware of different feeds based on cotton like cotton seeds, cotton seed oilcake (locally called Khal or Khali), cotton seed oil, commercial feed mixtures, etc. are harmful for animals as most of the cotton in India is now of BT Cotton type. According to Dr Kaura, BT toxin in the BT Cotton not only acts like a poison in the body triggering diarrhoea, convulsions, loss of apetite and other complications including sudden death, etc. but, two reports of years 2006 and 2007 from Animal Husbandry department of Andhra Pradesh state declares BT Cotton to contain deadly poison called Hydrogen Cyanide as well. Due widespread deaths of animals in some areas of Andhra Pradesh after grazing in BT Cotton farms, state government had cautioned not to graze animals on BT Cotton.


In this particular case of irratic milk productin of buffalo, the immediate relief and 25 per cent increase in milk yield with in 3 days time shows the cotton feed was not suited to the animal and it was adversely affecting its metabolism and milk producing ability opined Dr Kaura. He also informed that in last three years in many cases his team has observed increase in milk yield when BT Cotton feed was stopped in animals. He is hopeful that this particular clinical case can become a model for further research on effects of BT cotton on animal health and milk production efficiency. He informed that it is well established that BT Cotton based feeds decrease milk yield referring to 28 days study on cows conducted by National Dairy Research Institute milk production decline was observed in the cows being fed oil cake of BT cotton compared to normal cotton oilcake. (Fig. 1)



Fig. 1. Milk yield decline when cows were fed BT cotton feed.(Experiment Conducted by National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India)


(The phone of Mr Nachhatar Singh, the farmer who participated in this clinical trial is 9467131769 from with in Haryana 09467131769 from outside Haryana with in India and +91 9467131769 from outside India, and he understands Hindi and Panjabi.)


Sudhir Kumar Kaura PhD


Farmer Knowledge Centre, 10C Friends Colony, Hisar, 125001 http://www.savefarmer.info/kgk.php



Notes:another similar case we found is of Mr Ashok of Rewari District (phone from with in Haryana 9992424899, 09992424899 from outside Haryana and +919992424899 from outside India ) who reports normalisation of untimely milk delivery on the advice of Farmer Knowledge Centre with in three days of stopping cotton seeds in the feed of buffalo, who recently delivered. *He understands Hindi only.


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