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Jersey/HF cows not good for India!

Indian Diary Farmer cutting the very branch he is sitting on

Indian Diary Farmer cutting the very branch he is sitting on

Jersey/HF cows are at their best where the average temperature of the state or province during the afternoon is below 25 degrees Centigrade. I said BELOW 25 for 90% of the time… not just for coldest month! In India the temperature in almost all states is much above that except for the month of February  This makes Jersey/HF unsustainable across almost all of India (except  the hill stations of India).

These poor small ear-ed animals have a huge difficulty dissipating heat. Ears are the cooling system of a cow’s body. Small ears hold more heat within the body. This is an advantage in snowing countries but… Continue reading

How to Farm?

“How to Farm?”…  is a fundamental question… how man sources his food…is the one question that should come to everybody’s mind sometime in their lifetime. But the sad part is that neither does it come to the minds of most people nor to the newbie first time farmers in their effort to learn farming. The truth is that they try to think… “how to make maximum profit from farming or diary farming“.

20 yrs ago the person who took to farming used to be the school dropouts. Parents warned their children that “if you don’t study well you will end up as a farmer”. But today a lot of educated people like Doctors, MBAs, IT guys, Lawyers, etc are returning to take up farming as they are fed-up of their unending deadlines, stress, daily, weekly and monthly targets, unhealthy lifestyle and food.

The good news is that lot of educated people are returning to farming… but the sad news is that a lot of them are not asking the right questions and thus falling prey for traps laid out by  international agencies who mask themselves as Institutes, Consultants & Advisors for farmers!

If farmers do not tread carefully they could end up with a noose around their neck (suicide) …after all you are competing directly with some of the most powerful & cutthroat organizations in the world, like Bill Gates and Monsanto… for control over WATER and SEED.

How to Farm?

How to Farm?

But the biggest mistake they do is they try to… Continue reading