Japan prepares supplementary budget for dairy cow fertility recommendation grant

[Livestock News Reporter Min Byeong-jin] 5 billion yen allocated, incentives paid when using genetic resources with high longevity calculation Japan has begun providing support to increase the productive lifespan of dairy cows. Japan has been creating highly economical dairy cows using its own comprehensive improvement index (NTP). As a result, improvements were made at a rate of more than 100 kg per year, but the problem of reduced fecundity and reduced production life remained. Since there is a negative genetic correlation between fecundity and lactation ability, there is a limit to simultaneously improving fecundity through selection using NTP alone. In relation to this, the Japanese government allocated 5 billion yen as an emergency support project to improve the longevity of dairy cows in the supplementary budget at the Cabinet meeting on November 10. With the goal of realizing sustainable dairy farming, an incentive of 6,000 yen or 9,000 yen per crossbreeding will be ...