Solar milking machine

Now, dairy owners need not worry about erratic power supply or unscheduled load shedding in summer if they want to adopt modern milking machines. Most dairy owners used to depend on labourers or electric milking machines to get milk from cows or buffaloes at their respective dairy farms.

Now, they can have milking machines operated on solar power, thus minimising power bills and labour cost. The USP of the battery-operated mobile milking machine is elimination of noise. In the absence of power, dairy farmers have to depend on diesel motors to run the milking machines.

“It will be useful for small and medium dairy owners. It is priced at Rs70,000 and is eligible for subsidy from Karnataka Milk Federation. The quantity of the subsidy varies from one milk producers’ association to the other in the state since each of them has its own norms and rules. A dairy farmer who buys this battery-operated milking machine is eligible for subsidy between Rs25,000 to Rs40,000,’’ said BG Santosh, sales manager, Siddon Biotech.

The farmer can take this machine as per the requirement since it is a trolley-mounted. The other advantage is that its battery can be charged by using electricity during monsoon. The machine was in limelight during the AgriTech India 2012 in Bangalore.