Ah .. great discussion by Manas and Prateek but limited to arguments and some one sided comments by dairyman (Is that Mr. Sant You?).
I am not doing dairy farming but I have researched this field for last more than 1 year and gone through every possible info I could get (online and offline both).
As per my knowledge what Manas said is quite achievable but what Prateek said is more of experienced work, although I feel both are lacking on proper marketing of the product side. I know someone told me in very begining that:
"If You Dont Know The Premium of The Quality of Milk Produced, then Dont Get into This Business"
Both Prateek and Manas selling major part of their dairy milk produced to cooperatives or bulk buyers at 17 to 19 Rs / ltr. If I am correct then Prateek sells some Ghee, Paneer etc but more of towards bulk selling of milk to Parag dairy etc.
In current scenario most of the profits are earned by marketer or middle man rather than producer, earlier I met one person near Jhajjar, Haryana who had around 18 quality HF & Sahiwal cows and producing around 350 lpd. But the most interesting part was he sells that milk at 30 Rs per litre in near by areas directly to consumers, so if you deduct 4 Rs for logistics then still he is getting 26 rs/ltr which is way ahead of what Manas and Prateek is getting.
Value addition is one more aspect where you can improve your profit by almost 25% which includes selling of Ghee, Paneer, Dahi (Curd), Skimmed Milk, Flavoured Milk with proper planning.
Lastly how so ever you are successful and running business for years but still way behind from your partners oversease.
Take an example of Israel - In last 60 years they have converted every single cattle to CB HF ... aka Israely HF producing more than 8000-10000 ltr per lactation and we complain that our climate dont suit HFs.
Same with Brazil, they imported GIR from India around 60 years back and now India is planning to import from them as their GIRs produce more than 8000 ltr per lactation.
Conclusion is - There is lot of hope in this field but proper knowledge and execution required with utmost dedication.
I am not doing dairy farming but I have researched this field for last more than 1 year and gone through every possible info I could get (online and offline both).
As per my knowledge what Manas said is quite achievable but what Prateek said is more of experienced work, although I feel both are lacking on proper marketing of the product side. I know someone told me in very begining that:
"If You Dont Know The Premium of The Quality of Milk Produced, then Dont Get into This Business"
Both Prateek and Manas selling major part of their dairy milk produced to cooperatives or bulk buyers at 17 to 19 Rs / ltr. If I am correct then Prateek sells some Ghee, Paneer etc but more of towards bulk selling of milk to Parag dairy etc.
In current scenario most of the profits are earned by marketer or middle man rather than producer, earlier I met one person near Jhajjar, Haryana who had around 18 quality HF & Sahiwal cows and producing around 350 lpd. But the most interesting part was he sells that milk at 30 Rs per litre in near by areas directly to consumers, so if you deduct 4 Rs for logistics then still he is getting 26 rs/ltr which is way ahead of what Manas and Prateek is getting.
Value addition is one more aspect where you can improve your profit by almost 25% which includes selling of Ghee, Paneer, Dahi (Curd), Skimmed Milk, Flavoured Milk with proper planning.
Lastly how so ever you are successful and running business for years but still way behind from your partners oversease.
Take an example of Israel - In last 60 years they have converted every single cattle to CB HF ... aka Israely HF producing more than 8000-10000 ltr per lactation and we complain that our climate dont suit HFs.
Same with Brazil, they imported GIR from India around 60 years back and now India is planning to import from them as their GIRs produce more than 8000 ltr per lactation.
Conclusion is - There is lot of hope in this field but proper knowledge and execution required with utmost dedication.