TOMSK, Oct 17 – RIA Tomsk. One of the Tomsk agroenterprises
can become a pilot platform on transition to automated dairy production; Dutch
robot milkmaid will be installed on a farm, which not only milk cows, but also
save them from main stress – communication with a person, the head of regional
department of village social and economic development Irina Cherdantseva told.
Earlier it was reported that Tomsk
was visited by delegation from the Netherlands at the beginning of October
where representatives of the Dutch business, including the Lely Company –
international developer of innovative solutions for agriculture participated.
According to Cherdantseva, Lely became the first-ever firm, which made the
milking robot. As it is reported on the website of the company, "farmers
recognize it as the most important invention of the 20th century for dairy
farmings".
"The Tomsk region is ready to
move to a new level of robotic equipment. There is a confidence that robots
milkmaids will appear in the Tomsk region soon. Such offer is being prepared
for one of the Tomsk commercial organizations. The robot is a box into which
the cow comes on a bait. The robot defines whether this cow should give milk or
still not. If term approached, it sticks and milks", – Cherdantseva told
at the press conference in RIA Tomsk.
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She added that the robot controls
quality of milk at each milking. If any indicators of milk are lower than norm,
it automatically separates such milk from the general party. "The
mechanical milkmaid" can also find mastitis at early stage at cows, allows
to organize milking in the round-the-clock mode, minimizes number of contacts
of an animal with human.
"The most important moment is
that communication of cows with a person is a stress for cows. Cows are happy
in Holland on Saturday and Sunday when there is no farmer, everything is in an
automatic mode, and the system is controlled from a cell phone", –
Cherdantseva commented.
According to her information, one
robot milkmaid can serve 70 cows. Such devices are successfully used in Belarus
where already about 50% of farms are robotized.
"It is offered 12 million
rubles (for a robot) together with service. There is a grant support in the
Tomsk region: if the grant was 3 million for the dairy direction before, then
it is 20 million now. We wait for farmers who are ready to experiment. The
company buys the robot by itself. There will be a clarity by the end of the
year (on the pilot project)", – Cherdantseva added.