{"id":87018,"date":"2019-04-06T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87018"},"modified":"2019-04-06T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T22:11:57","slug":"budget-and-cow-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/06\/budget-and-cow-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDGET AND COW MILK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Being predominantly a agricultural nation, it is a worthy\ncause initiated by the government of &nbsp;to\ndevelop agriculture at home garden level &nbsp;as well as in National Level, due to the fact\nthat Industrial Revolution Initiated by Previous Regimes have miserably failed.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read the budget proposals with a keen interest and noted a\nworthy cause initiated by the government to import 20,000 cows to Sri Lanka to\nenhance milk production, which I think is timely action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few questions is still remaining to be answered?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In\norder to provide milk, cows require a stud bull to make them productive to have\ncalves ,hence are we importing foreign bulls or trying to manage with Local\nStud bulls&nbsp; ??( we have plenty in some\nselected Pradesheeya Sabha\u2019s !!)<\/li><li>Cows\nfrom Australia and New Zealand have been imported to Sri Lanka ,but their milking\nyield has been low due to stress emanated from the high heat in Sri Lanka\n,unless they all are placed in Nuwaraeliya <\/li><li>If\nthey have to be kept so far away we require milk chilling facilities as milk\nextracted nee cooling within 2-3 hours and transport. <\/li><li>These\ncows cannot survive long in dry zones to give optimum milk output of 20-30 &nbsp;litres like in those countries &nbsp;due to heat stress <\/li><li>Chillers\nwith Solar power ice making facilities are also required&nbsp; and they are quite expensive. <\/li><li>Government\nshall consider bringing Buffaloes ( though we have many in various Pradesheeya\nSabhas!!) who can provide milk with high fat content and the buffaloes have\nmore endurance to survive.<\/li><li>Pakistan\nand India is self-sufficient in Milk despite the hot climate as they use many\nchillers using diesel power operated ice making plant and the cows from these\ncountries have more endurance and able to withstand the excessive heat. <\/li><li>COWS\nTO BE IMPORTED SHOULD BE FROM INDIA OR PAKISTAN IF SRI LANKA IS SERIOUSLY\nCONTEMPLATING DEVLOP DAIRY INDUSTRY <\/li><li>I\nAM SURE WORLD BANK OR ASEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK CAN PROVIDE FUNDING FOR ABOVE <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>THERE\nMAY BE AGENTS IN THE COW-BUSINESS WHO MAY BE EITHER PURSUING THE SUPPLY OF COWS\nFROM AUSTRALIA TO MILK\u201d AND MAKE&nbsp; FEW\nMILLION DOLLARS WHICH&nbsp; H E PRESIDENT\nSHOULD BE AWARE OF .<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Being predominantly a agricultural nation, it is a worthy cause initiated by the government of &nbsp;to develop agriculture at home garden level &nbsp;as well as in National Level, due to the fact that Industrial Revolution Initiated by Previous Regimes have miserably failed. I read the budget proposals with a keen interest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}