Abstract:
In rural area milk production is playing vital role to maintain the part food security in
terms of the nutrition. Nowadays, all the countries are taking the policy making to
maintain the agricultural base production for small medium entrepreneur activities to
engage the fresh milk for healthy life. The milk contain all the nutrients, which are
easily absorbed and assimilated by the body. The milk universally consumes production.
Even though the environmental factors involve the milk yield production and
management practice of the farmers. Mostly The smallholder farmers’ livestock are a
living bank that serves as a financial source for period of economic distress. Motivate
the small scale dairy farmers invest in this filed to profitable enterprise with commercial
dairy farming. The secondary data collected from Divisional veterinary regional office
in Batticaloa. Furthermore, special interview with veterinary hospital doctors and
livestock farmers were arranged to identify the major problems of decreasing the milk
production and death of livestock during this period between beginning of 2018 and
up to now. Regarding the discussion with above people who suggested that sudden
dropped in milk production around 40% compared with past years and increase in
death of cattle and buffalo due to several reasons and also stated, the drought is not
that much reduce the milk production because this study found the inverse relationship
with rainfall and above 28oC temperature but the major reason was lack of awareness
on livestock management practices. Therefore, the present study was aimed to determine
the correlation between environmental conditions such as atmospheric temperature
and rainfall on milk production, influence of management factors on cattle and buffalos
in Batticaloa District in Sri Lanka by using descriptive analysis. This paper
recommended that, farmers should be considered the proper management practices to
decrease the death of animals while increase the production based on environmental
conditions. The policy makers should consider provide more awareness programs related
to current issues among famers in this study area.
