5 Climate Change and Milk Production
According to International food policy report By 2050, the decline in calorie
availability will increase child malnutrition by 20 % relative to a world with no
climate change. Climate change will eliminate much of the improvement in child
malnourishment levels that would occur with no climate change. The greatest
threats and effects of climate change are on food security and the impact on dairy
sector on this issue. Ensuring food security at the national level is therefore a high
priority. The issue is especially important because it provides the link between
production and availability of milk on the one hand and potential use of the other. It
is a primary objective in the livelihoods and aspirations of farmers should be able to
produce milk for the growing demand, and provide for a better tomorrow.
Developing countries may experience a decline of between 9 and 21 % in overall
potential agricultural productivity as a result of global warming at the world level.
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. The temperature level as depicted over the decade.
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K. Sreenivasaiah
According to International food policy report By 2050, the decline in calorie
availability will increase child malnutrition by 20 % relative to a world with no
climate change. Climate change will eliminate much of the improvement in child
malnourishment levels that would occur with no climate change. The greatest
threats and effects of climate change are on food security and the impact on dairy
sector on this issue. Ensuring food security at the national level is therefore a high
priority. The issue is especially important because it provides the link between
production and availability of milk on the one hand and potential use of the other. It
is a primary objective in the livelihoods and aspirations of farmers should be able to
produce milk for the growing demand, and provide for a better tomorrow.
Developing countries may experience a decline of between 9 and 21 % in overall
potential agricultural productivity as a result of global warming at the world level.
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. The temperature level as depicted over the decade.
534
K. Sreenivasaiah