The economic effectiveness of robotic milking of cows

Abstract

One of the most promising and economic effective areas of cow milking is robotization, which opens up new opportunities for the development of high-yield dairy farming in farms of different forms of ownership and makes this type of business attractive for investment. Active use of modern milk production technologies contributes not only to increasing the competitiveness of agricultural products, but also to their successful implementation. The purpose of the researches was to analyze the economic effectiveness of implementing robotic milking of cows. The data on the analysis of the economic effectiveness of using milking robots for milking cows in the Kaluga region have been presented in the article. Researches on the economic effectiveness of robotic milking have been carried out at a large agricultural enterprise and peasant (farm) farms in order to study the effectiveness of the impact of milking robots from DeLaval and Lely on the functional state of cows’ udders, their milk productivity, milk quality, and labour costs for production. The analysis of economic effectiveness has shown that milking cows on the robotic installation can reduce the prime-cost of production of 1 kg of milk by 1,52 rubles or 10 % compared to milking cows on the milking installation “Tandem”, automate milking operations and reduce the volume of manual labour on the farm by 40 % or more, increase the profitability of production by 15 % by increasing the productivity of cows and reducing the prim-cost of milk from 10 to 20 %.