MILK NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION IN RELATION TO COW GENOTYPE AND LOCATION OF BANGLADESH

The present study was conducted at Dairy farm of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Dhaka and Sathia Upazila of Pabna to investigate the milk composition in relation to region. For this experiment milk samples feed samples and a total of 60 (20 of each genotype) dairy cows of the genotypes of Pabna, Local and Cross bred were selected. Among the different genotypes of cows maximum milk production was recorded in Crossbred cows (8.24 Lit.) and minimum in Local cows (3.09 Lit.). Maximum fat (5.05%), protein (3.78%), lactose (5.37%), SNF (9.94%) was found in milk from Local cows but maximum mineral was found in Crossbred cow’s milk (0.56%).