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Your idea is good. If you plan for a 10000 liter capacity plant, it will cost a little more than a crore according to NABARD. You can get all the information/project details on NABARD website. Profit will depend on your cost of procuring milk and selling price. The most important thing...

Your post was very informative. Is it possible to post a few pictures of your greenhouse and also explain the amount of produce you are able to generate per crop cycle?

Source These numbers you have - from where were you able to research/manage them? What is your source for these numbers? How are current poultry farmers engaging/working profitably? Any feedback from them as to how they are able to reduce their costs and run such a venture?

I have visited a few dairy farms in the USA and seen their technology and how they manage their dairy farms. Unbelievable care is given to the animals with the minimum of labor and the yields are tremendous. Unfortunately I am not aware of the dairy farm management procedures in India...

Money Can you please explain your pricing structure? If you can please enumerate your post with numbers cost, price, maintenance charges, constructions costs, labor costs etc. it would be very helpful.

What are the terms of the loan? What is the interest that the bank charges in general for the loans and how much investor input do they expect? (20% or 30% or 40%) Can you tell us how much you charge for project report?

Knowledge Can you please detail your experiences? How did you manage labor, fodder and diseases? How are you managing selling your milk? How are you able to juggle this dairy farm with your job? Do share your story.

Number There are quite a few threads dedicated to this topic on this forum. If I remember correctly, you can expect to make profit (depending on your local factors) with cow dung daily from 100 cows and a 'good' operation will require a minimum of 300 livestock. Search for threads in this...

Labour I certainly agree with you regarding the medium/small scale option. Unless you go big and I mean really big, it is not a viable option. Another component of a dairy farm in addition to fodder (and water and cow disease among others) is the availability of labour. It is very very...

Management Interesting Thread. Please post your experiences on your visit to these farms. Do relate how they deal with labor, their milking process, the healthcare of the cows, heat stress management, nutrition management, waste management, feed management etc. Please post some pictures...

Your Own Tale Dear DairyMan, Please share with members how you went about setting up your farm and the difficulties and challenges you faced and how you were able to overcome them. Also any tips and suggestions on running your farm, procurement of fodder, labour and selling of milking, care...

Farm visit Can you please provide information regarding Vinay Kulkarni's farm and how one can go about visiting his farm?

Figures Very interesting thoughts and suggestions. Do you have a project report on setting up a dairy plant like this? Please let us know how you arrived at the figures for 2-2.5 crores for a 25 K litre capacity plant.

Price Sunil, I looked over your website and it seems impressive. But when I clicked on the pictures of the machines it took me to swastikenterp.tradeindia.com. Somehow the pictures on your website do not appear to be in Indian settings. Also the prices of the different machines are not...

Lets see Thanks Sandeep for your information. Actually I am from an area which has probably one of the largest population of emus being grown in India. (Can you guess?) I am talking with first hand information. I know the problems emu farmers are facing and the tremendous losses they are...