Profit and Loss in Dairy farming is the first question that intrigues any aspirant dairy farm entrepreneur’s mind. Often the economic viability of the milk business is discussed and question arises – Whether milk business is profitable or not? Most of them consider this business is loss making with firsthand experiences 🙁 Everyone has his own opinion. For us, dairy farming is definitely profitable and worth a go. Since inception, we at PowerGotha.com , believe and recommend that the milk business can be profitable right from the start. To succeed in any business, at first, we need to note […]
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Silage Making in India has been recommended and taught for number of years now. While the adaptation was low at the start, slowly, Silage Making is picking up pace and gaining popularity among Dairy Farmers of India. Especially among Dairy Farmers of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, the interest in Silage Making in India is on the rise with modern dairy farming management techniques being adopted more and more. In Dairy farming business, essential element steady production of milk is to provide cows consistently with healthy diet which includes major portion as Green Fodder, throughout the year. In recent past, there […]
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Loose housing dairy farm plays vital role in Modern Dairy farming in India. It helps in reducing labour hours and labour costs as well as reduction in expenses through decrease in diseases among cows and buffaloes of your Dairy Farm. Traditional methods and their shortcomings Indian farmer has been traditionally practicing age old methods in dairy farming. There are very few examples wherein number of milch animals have increased in a particular dairy farm following the traditional farming methods. For example, if a farmer is having one cow this year, considering the amount of calves it will give birth to, he should have four to five […]
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Importance of hybrid cows and the associated Records Healthy cows is the key for a successful dairy farming business. Animals with good progeny also need special care and attention. For this we already learnt about dairy farm with loose housing and silage making in the articles here and here. All these modern techniques are useful only if we rear quality breeds in our dairy farm. Cows having inherent low milk production capacity and having low disease resistance, won’t give good results even with all other things being good. Thus, having quality crossbreed cow in our dairy farm is desirable. Now, where do you find such quality cows […]
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This article was published during Diwali day of VasuBaras. It is the first day of Diwali called – VasuBaras. It is the day on which we worship the cows which give us so much in various ways. And we’re delighted to have this article out on the auspicious day in English. Exactly, two years ago, the project Powergotha started with an aim to help traditional dairy farmers become modern, and first article about loose housing (mukta gotha in Marathi) was published. It has taken 2 long years to seriously begin translating our site into English. Exactly one year back, the article […]
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How To start dairy farming business from scratch ? Since founding our Website PowerGotha, enthusiast from Cities who want to turn to villages for sustainable business and life, have been asking this fundamental question regularly. While there’s no perfect answer to that, there’s universal method by which you can learn any business. Dairy Farming is no exception. Few fundamental steps need to be followed to start a successful dairy farming business. I’m listing them below. How to Start Dairy farming – steps involved Learn Start Run Maintain Grow We’ll discuss them one by one. 1. Learn – How to start […]
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