Most of the people in INDIA associate Dairy with Milk & Milk Products however to be more precise Dairy business is made up of 3 stages viz.

1. Milk Production : This is where an individual /company keeps animals ( cows or buffaloes) , rears them & produces milk which is then further sold as liquid milk / given to Procurement people ( as in 2 nd step) or further processed into milk products ( 3rd step) viz. Curd, Lassi, Butter, Paneer, Cheese , Pedha just to name a few.
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Further to my interactions with scores of people thinking of entering Dairy business all across (especially India) the country it was quite evident that the general beliefs are :-

1. Dairy Farming is an easy business.

This is because Dairy farming is done by a farmer, who in most cases is not much learned & has been doing this business for quite a lot of years & is making money. However the main constraint in his Dairy farming is that he has been...

Hi,

"Greetings from Indian Dairy Association"

It gives us a great pleasure to inform you that we are organizing XXXVII Dairy Industry Conference from 7th to 9th February 2009 at Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa.

The theme of the conference is "Dairying for Livelihood and Growth".

Along with the conference an Exhibition of dairy products, milk processing equipment, veterinary drugs, biological & pharmaceuticals, cattle feed manufacturers, insurance...

Press release :-

Indian Dairy Market to Double by 2011

Which is India's No. 1 crop? Is it rice? Or wheat? Well, neither. The right answer happens to be milk. The country's milk production is estimated to have touched 100 Million Tonnes (mt) last year, which is higher than the estimated 92 MT for rice and 75 MT for wheat. In value terms, too, a kg of milk is worth more than what you and I pay for a kg of rice and wheat.

But despite all this and the fact...

It is seen at most places that a Dairy Farmer is not aware of the economics of his day to day business. This is because Dairy has been a traditional form of business, which is being carried on by generations together. The pattern particularly of the feeding & watering has been quite the same for a long time.

It is commonly seen that most of the Farmers who keep animals for Milk have very little or NO idea about the expenses (per day) invloved in raising the animals. It is interesting...