25kilos of flies!!!

After a frightful experience involving a hotel bathroom with blood up the wall, our trip to see Indian agriculture took us to a couple of dairy farms.




The cow is a sacred animal in India, although religious it is based on the fact that while alive the cow produces milk, fertilizer and the lovely poo logs for fuel above.



Harinder Singh has a 50 cow herd but is doubling in size (see his development above) and Harinder is a member of the punjabi progressive dairy farmers whose plan is to have 2 large dairies in each village- there are 2500 villages in the area!!



Indian has a population of 1.14 billion people: the government has a policy to double milk production to feed the nation. We visited a corporate farm which has 1100 animals on a development farm using embryo transplant technology to provide quality genetics to a network of farming ladies who each owned 5 cows each on large units collectively managed by the ladies on a rota.
Their brand tru milk has a unique selling point that the milk is sold to European standards; they told us in Indian dairies 25kg of flies are filtered from the milk any one day!

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