Ration Balancing Programme (RBP) aims to educate dairy farmers on feeding balanced rations to their dairy animals
- Rations fed to the animals are often imbalanced in protein, energy, minerals and vitamins, leading to poor animal productivity and reduced income from dairy farming.
- NDDB developed user-friendly ration balancing software to educate dairy farmers on feeding balanced rations to their animals using locally available feed ingredients.
- Under the National Dairy Plan (Phase-I), Ration Balancing Program (RBP) covered about 28.65 lakh milch animals belonging to 21.57 lakh farmers across 18 states in the country.
- RBP improved daily milk yield by an average of 0.27 kg, reduced feeding cost by 11.8 percent, enhanced net income of farmers by Rs. 27 per day per animal. It also reduced enteric methane emission by 13.7 percent.
- To increase the reach of RBP, existing Ration Balancing software has been revamped and incorporated into ‘Bharat Pashudhan’. User friendly mobile application (1962 App) has been developed to be used directly by the dairy farmers.