How the west is killing India's dairy farms

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Is it true that the West wanted India to reduce dairy farming? Why?

 

Selvarajan Rajeshwaran, Worked on integrated farming systems, using local embedded knowledge of farmers.

Updated 12h ago · Upvoted by Sudheer Kaspa, B.Sc(Ag) Agriculture, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (2011)

 

 

A very good question. Pleasantly surprised to see a policy related querry on this forum. This is a question that every policy maker and the government sponsored institutions should be addressing or thinking about in India, day in and out! Do you hear any such querry? The silence in this regard is deafening, to say the least.

YES. NOT just wanted (in the past) but wants to (in the present and in future). This is purely for their economic benefit and to be one up on us and make us dependent upon them for something as basic as milk (a,k.a. arms and oats) for eternity. You do not have to look very far of such an intention. See Sri Lanka. It is dependent upon New Zealand for 70% of total requirement of milk for the last 50 years. Their local dairy sector (read farmers) has been castrated, systematically and will continue to be . . . .This is games at high places. Some people in Sri Lanka, did try and emulate India but were systematically removed from decision making process. In fact, a team from Dairyboard had been positioned in Sri Lanka to bring their farmers out of the vicious cycle for about 2 to 3 years but were prevented from carrying out their field activities and the team was forced to retreat. In fact, India would have been in the same league of imports till date but for one man Dr V Kurien and the supoort of policy makers NOT meddling his interventions. This is a dog eat dog world. If one does not, the other will.

Surprising that India still remains fully self-sufficient in milk with a per capita availability / consumption of over 350 grams above world average vis-a-vis <100 gms for Sri Lanka.

The efforts to make India dependent on milk is still on and if our policy makers make a mistake, India, the largest producer and consumer of milk (of nearly 18% world’s total) will become import dependent and cause an upheaval not only in the domestic market but also in the international market. This has been cautioned by very many researchers across the World for the past 15 years. It must be noted that the international market is controlled by a handful of countries and hence very shallow. Hence, the mere news that India will enter that slim market will make the entire world market shudder. It will be akin to an an elephant in the forest sitting on a small water hole and all other animals waiting around.
All this talk of climate change due to our animals which have been with us for the last 5000 years or so is nothing but a red herring. . . . being floated around by vested interests and being carried on by a few academics to who are keen to share their knowledge of what they claim to know and infer.

Anyway, the number of dairy animals are exponentially reducing in India and is a matter of very serious concern for India but a happy news for those who want to sell milk powder and butter oil to India. Why, due to education, urban migration, lack of interest from the youngsters in animal rearing etc.

India in fact could have by now flooded the world market for milk with its milk of the A2 type (not A1) and with no competitors except for Africa. Milk capital of the world and providing not just milk but also valuable germplasm from its 60+ breeds wherein every individual farmer would have benefitted individually and suicides of farmers would have never every taken place. This is the contra of the present scenario and the counter factual. Here, we have become smug and arrogant by merely saying that we have become self-sufficient.

Some reasons: First one is the arrogance of our policy makers. Second is our inability to appreciate the 1000s of years of knowledge and wisdom of our farming community spread across the country, who have bestowed us with nearly 60 breeds of cows and buffaloes, each one suited to the local climate and resources. Third is loss of focus from being low cost of milk producer to mindless (and idiotic, I may add) emphasis on grains for feeding when it is well known that ruminants do NOT and can NOT digest grains. Fourth, is our over dependence on crossbred cows very well knowing that F2 and F3 generation will have severe problems of infertility and climate incompatibility.

As for our policy makers, they have better things to think about . . .i suppose.

 

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How NRI IT sheeps are killing real talent in India .. best example

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people like mental stress more than physical stress. With IT, only brain needs to work and gets more money. With Agri, not so sure about margins. 

 

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Just now, Batman_fan said:

people like mental stress more than physical stress. With IT, only brain needs to work and gets more money. With Agri, not so sure about margins. 

 

 

 

 

It's not about stress, it's just the sheep mentality ... if you do job in another state atleast there is guarantee that you'll be back. But if you go to US it;'s 100% pakka that you won't be back

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