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Lumpy Skin Disease: Are we staring at a milk drought in Maharashtra?
Updated On: 25 September, 2022 08:21 AM IST | Bhiwandi | Yusra Husain
With farmers struggling to contain the fast-spreading infectious Lumpy Skin Disease that has affected an estimated 19,000 cattle in the state, dairy unions fear that milk shortage could disrupt market and hit consumers like you hard
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Dairy farmer Prasad Patil, a resident of Mansarovar in Bhiwandi, has moved his cow Gauri from the farm shelter and is currently looking after her in the compound of his residential society. His son Meet Manoj Patil, 12, helps look after the cow after school, applying ointment on her skin nodules. Pic/Sameer Markande
Dairy farmer Dnyaneshwar Patil is in a tizzy when we meet him on a weekday afternoon at his cow shelter in Shelar village, Bhiwandi. This writer and mid-day photographer Sameer Markande travelled nearly 50 km from Mumbai city, to find themselves walking straight into a medical emergency. Moments ago, veterinarians from the animal husbandry department of the district, Dr Ajit Hirve and Dr Ali Asghar, had arrived.
Everyone is waiting for Yashoda to appear. She is Patil’s six-year-old cow who has begun to show skin infection symptoms including nodules on her body, which Patil alerted the authorities about. She has gone out grazing with the other cattle, and is expected any moment. When finally at 12.30 pm, Yashoda ambles into the shelter, her pace is slow. She has also developed high grade fever and seems to be in discomfort.
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