A buffalo from Patan district wins highest milk production prize

Patan: A cattle rearer Gherabhai Virabhai Desai’s Banni breed buffalo has won Rs. 25,000 prize for giving the highest 27.600-liter milk per day. The competition in this regard was organized by the State Government’s Animal Husbandry department. Gemarbhai is a resident of Kamliwada village in Patan district.

Gemarbhai says a person was ready to pay Rs. 5.11 lakh to purchase his buffalo but he refused. He says the buffalo gives milk worth Rs. 1300 to Rs. 1400 per day. He says he takes care of his buffalo well and feed it wheat, corn, papdi, and Sagardan mixed food twice a day apart from green fodder, dry chaar and bullet grass. DeshGujarat