Diary Farming and Dairy Products

Today, India's demand for milk is estimated at 155 mill metric ton per year. Within eight years, that is projected to grow an additional 50 percent. Large percentage of India is vegetarian population and the need for protein from diary products is huge. 

India has more diary cows than any other country. However the yield of milk per cow is only one tenth of elsewhere. 

We need to educate our farmers on good animal husbandry practices, how, what and when to feed animals, breeding management, sanitation and animal health and proper nutritious feed to cows.

We need to arrange for training sessions on these to increase the milk to as much as 36 ltr. per cow per day.

An interesting read about Cargill Food for cow feed has reportedly increased the average yield of a cow per day is 36 ltr. They train people on best practices and arrange training sessions along with providing the feed.

Looking at this, Diary Farming can be a lucrative revenue stream for smart village which adopt this.
Our smart village can choose to simply send milk to local diary, or be a local brand in itself defying the retail giants costly products/ no control over quality,

We can get loans from government to invest in more cows, or procuring the nutritious feed for cows, as returns are higher. But again this is a combined exercise where trainings has to happen, practices has to be changed, avoid ill health of animals etc.. http://www.agrifarming.in/dairy-farming-subsidy

As a by product, Bio Gas energy can be generated out of the cow dung contributing towards clean energy

As a change, we can setup milk products plant in the village, to develop other diary products like, full cream, yoghurt, cheese, cartoned milk, ghee, paneer, sauces, milk powder, butter, milk shakes etc.. 

Cow urine can be sold for ayurvedic medicinal value. Gomutra as health drink can also be produced which has 5%. It can also be used in a floor cleaning agent.

Cow dung and urine can also be used in zero budget farming. Like in olden days, we used to have lots of cows and buffaloes at home, not for milk, but because of their usage of cow dung as manure in their farms. We can definitely bring it and along with it, flourishing dairy farming

Farmers growing 2-5 cows per household can now grow to more than 10 and become financially better placed and everyone is an entrepreneur.

Village can consume all the diary and diary products it needs at affordable rates and not adulterated, before it distributed to neighboring villages, or retail giants. Health of villagers should come first before making a profitable business out of it. In olden days, all the laborers used to get dairy products like buttermilk from the owners for lunch. None of them had lifestyle diseases like today. 

Community Dairy Farming is beneficial if we want to make this as one of the prime revenue generation of our smart village

Hence the most environmentally, socially and economically sustainable solution to meeting the massive need of India is to help smart village and its small diary farmers get more milk from every cow

A good reads on entrepreneur journey of dairy farmers in India

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cargill/2016/08/18/indian-dairy-dynasty/#522e949a4680

https://yourstory.com/2013/09/amrutha-dairy-farms-journey-it-to-dairy-farming-santhosh-d-singh/
http://www.gowardhanindia.com/infrastructure_dairy_farm.html
https://yourstory.com/2016/02/akshayakalpa-farms/
http://www.agricultureinformation.com/postings/fortune-dairy-organic-buffalo-cow-milk-complete-automation/
http://www.ecoideaz.com/expert-corner/dairy-farming-in-india

USEFUL LINKS

http://www.agrifarming.in/dairy-farming
http://www.agrifarming.in/dairy-farming-subsidy