Educated youth set up dairy farms

The youth here are keen to set up dairy farms following huge demand for the milk and milk based items in the towns. People want to buy milk directly from dairy forms instead of packaged milk following the reports that it is not safe.     

Educated, hard- working youth are forming as a group and going into dairying for it is now profit marking business, with there being good demand for milk and milk products, like curd, pannier despite the presence of many milk companies in the business of supplying packaged milk.

The dairy farm owners purchasing ‘Kalli pindi’ at Rs 2,100 per quintal in the local market to feed the animals daily in addition to the green grass and maize and jowar being raised in their agriculture field or purchased from farmers.

Along with his two friends, Kallem Naresh Reddy of Adilabad town recently set up dairy farm with eight milch animals of Haryana breed and producing an average 75 liters of milk every- day and selling them at Rs 50 per liter in the open market.

They had set up diary farm with Rs 15 lakh near Ankoli village in Adilabad.

"There is good demand for milk following the huge shortage of milk production in the Adilabad district, said Naresh Reddy and added that there are 20 dairy farms in and around Adilabad town and four among them started recently by the youth". 

Dairy farm owners are getting green grass seeds on subsidy and services of government veterinary doctor. People are ready to buy quality milk at Rs 55 per liter and collect the milk from dairy farm itself.