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“Imagine, if a bunch of your dairy food habits can catalyse the organic food movement; nurture local forests; enhance animal welfare; empower people and enrich village economies;Overwhelming right? Yes! Through, organizing open grazing milk producers, we will promote milk products which will support customer health & farmer welfare in our journey.”
Long Term Outcome
- Dairying is a part of the farming system, not a separate enterprise. Feed is mostly residual from crops, whereas cow/buffalo dung is important for manure.
- Dairying provides a source of regular income, whereas income from agriculture is seasonal. This regular source of income has a huge impact on minimizing risks to income. There is some indication that areas where dairy is well developed have less incidence of farmer suicide.
- About a third of rural incomes are dependent upon dairying.
- Livestock is a security asset to be sold in times of crisis.
- We want to see a significant change in the dairy sector where decentralized animal husbandry practices are embraced which will benefit almost everyone.
