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India’ fodder crisis: Why cattle owners in this Haryana village want to shift to dog-breeding -Bhagirath

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Cattle ranchers sold milch cows at throwaway prices after incurring losses of about Rs 3 lakh in 5 months  

Mangatram Aane  from Lokra village in Haryana’s Gurugram district had hopes of good income when he left his job with Hero Honda 15 years ago and started dairy farming. 

Initially, he fetched a good money from dairy farming, then he  became a veterinary doctor. He felt that dairy farming had a future and this education would help him in his milk business and that he could take care of the animals in a better way.

Mangatram started with two buffaloes. The following year, he bought cows of Gir, Sahiwal, Rathi, Tharparkar breeds and kept increasing their numbers year after year. The going was good till the end of 2021, when he started realised that animal husbandry is no longer a profitable deal. 

The sudden increase in the price of fodder forced him to move away from animal husbandry. By February-March 2022, he gradually started weaning his 39 milch cows. By the end of April, 28 cows were removed from the dairy farm. 

The market price of his milch cow is Rs 80,000-90,000, but he sold most of them at Rs 5,000-7,000. He donated 10 cows free of cost to the nomadic Raika community of Rajasthan. At present, they are left with only seven adult cows, two calves and two bulls.

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