Climate Change and Its Impact on Milk
Production in India
K. Sreenivasaiah
Abstract In the world today 7.08 billion people inhabit on the earth presently to
feed everyone adequately the world needs 910.10 million tons of milk, against
which global production is only 720.98 million tons. This discrepancy in need and
production left over 868 million. People undernourished worldwide and 850 million
people of them live in developing countries. Climate change poses a formidable
challenge to the development of livestock sector in India. The anticipated rise in
temperature between 2.3 and 4.8 °C over the entire country together with increased
precipitation resulting from climate change is likely to aggravate the heat stress in
dairy animals, particularly hybrid animals, adversely affecting their productive and
reproductive performance, and hence reducing the total area where high yielding
dairy cattle can be economically reared. Milk is an important component of food
that is significantly increasing in demand. Increased heat stress associated with
global climate change may, however, cause distress to dairy animals and possibly
impact milk production. The Temperature- Humidity Index was used to relate
animal stress with productivity of milk of buffaloes, crossbred, and local cows.
Keywords Dairy Á Climate change Á Milk production Á Live stock
1 Introduction
The cows are able to pay for their feed food, my bank loan monthly instalments, feed for
non-milking cows, the maintenance of calves, the salary of workers and the running of my
household; I can’t ask for anything else. I am in dairy farming because I love cows and they
are not putting any additional financial burden on me. It is very important that seasonally
taking care is very important for all cows.
K. Sreenivasaiah (&)
Economics Department, Government First Grade College for Women’s Balmatta,
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
e-mail: economicssrini@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_32
531
Production in India
K. Sreenivasaiah
Abstract In the world today 7.08 billion people inhabit on the earth presently to
feed everyone adequately the world needs 910.10 million tons of milk, against
which global production is only 720.98 million tons. This discrepancy in need and
production left over 868 million. People undernourished worldwide and 850 million
people of them live in developing countries. Climate change poses a formidable
challenge to the development of livestock sector in India. The anticipated rise in
temperature between 2.3 and 4.8 °C over the entire country together with increased
precipitation resulting from climate change is likely to aggravate the heat stress in
dairy animals, particularly hybrid animals, adversely affecting their productive and
reproductive performance, and hence reducing the total area where high yielding
dairy cattle can be economically reared. Milk is an important component of food
that is significantly increasing in demand. Increased heat stress associated with
global climate change may, however, cause distress to dairy animals and possibly
impact milk production. The Temperature- Humidity Index was used to relate
animal stress with productivity of milk of buffaloes, crossbred, and local cows.
Keywords Dairy Á Climate change Á Milk production Á Live stock
1 Introduction
The cows are able to pay for their feed food, my bank loan monthly instalments, feed for
non-milking cows, the maintenance of calves, the salary of workers and the running of my
household; I can’t ask for anything else. I am in dairy farming because I love cows and they
are not putting any additional financial burden on me. It is very important that seasonally
taking care is very important for all cows.
K. Sreenivasaiah (&)
Economics Department, Government First Grade College for Women’s Balmatta,
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
e-mail: economicssrini@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_32
531