Status of feeding practices, productive and reproductive performances of dairy cows at the Palash Upazila of Narsingdi district in Bangladesh

This study was carried out at different villages of Palash Upazila under the Narsingdi district in Bangladesh to envisage storage system straw, feeding system, genotype distribution, productive and reproductive performances dairy cows. Hence, a total 100 small-scale farm owners were randomly selected interviewed with pre-tested structured questionnaire. Overall, 40% farmers raised indigenous cows studied villages, while 60% reared Holstein crossbred Around 75 25% collected green grass from arable non-arable lands, respectively. Results revealed that 11.43% each village Balucharpara, Kandapara, Gazaria, Sultanpur, Malita stored straw as stack on field, lowest percentage (4.29%) Sanerbari followed this storage. About 14.81% Paiksha inside their houses. Calving interval (P=0.04) milk yield (P=0.05) both differed significantly among villages. observed better Balucharpara than other However, should be motivated given training fodder cultivation, feed processing, preservation accelerate sustainable production reproduction