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Yak - food animal
December 1 , 2022
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- The Himalayan yak has been accepted as a food animal by the scientific panel of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI).
- The categorisation is expected to help check the decline in the population of the high-altitude bovine animal by making it a part of the conventional milk and meat industry.
- Yaks are traditionally reared under a transhumance system which is primitive, unorganised and full of hardship.
- According to 2019 census, India has some 58,000 yaks.
- It is a drop of about 25% from the last livestock census conducted in 2012.
- Yak milk contains 78-82% water, 7.5-8.5% fat, 4.9-5.3% protein, 4.5-5.0% lactose and 12.3-13.4% solids-not-fat.
- Mostly consumed locally, yak meat is known to be lean.
- The meat contains 74.8% moisture, 21.7% protein, 1.5% crude fat and 1.2% ash.
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