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Economic losses in dairy farms due to heat stress in sub-tropics: evidence from North Indian Plains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2022

Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary  and
Smita Sirohi
Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary*
Affiliation:
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh 284003, India
Smita Sirohi
Affiliation:
Embassy of India to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg, 217 Chaussee de Vleurgat, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
*
Author for correspondence: Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The present study assesses the sensitivity of dairy animals to thermal stress, and projects the economic losses due to heat stress in the Trans and Upper Gangetic plains region of India with Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 climate scenario for the time slice 2010–2039 and two subperiods, 2020–2029 and 2030–2039. The projections were carried out for two different scenarios of population and productivity growth of dairy animals, Business-as-Usual (BAU) and Alternate, whereby land, feed and fodder constraints were applied. The potential annual loss in milk production due to heat stress in the region was estimated to be around 361 and 377 thousand tons for the time slice 2010–2039 under BAU and Alternate scenario, respectively. In economic terms these losses, at current prices, would be equivalent to INR 11.93 billion and INR 12.44 billion, respectively. This gives an indication of the level of financial investment that can be made in adaptation measures to arrest the loss due to climate change.

Keywords

Economic lossesheat stressrepresentative concentration pathway
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 141 - 147
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hannah Dairy Research Foundation

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