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&lt;em&gt;Punjab&amp;rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&amp;rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. &lt;br /&gt;
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Gurdaspur (Punjab): &lt;/em&gt;&amp;ldquo;When there&amp;rsquo;s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),&amp;rdquo; asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&amp;rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &amp;ldquo;agriculturists&amp;rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&amp;rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.&lt;br /&gt;
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Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. &amp;ldquo;Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?&amp;rdquo;, thunders Randhawa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&amp;rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&amp;rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &amp;mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &amp;mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The above trade &amp;mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &amp;mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&amp;rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&amp;rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &amp;ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &amp;hellip; within 50 km from any international border&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &amp;ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&amp;rdquo; remarks Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Punjab&amp;rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&amp;rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&amp;rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &amp;ldquo;agriculturists&amp;rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That the purchaser is an &amp;ldquo;agriculturist&amp;rdquo; would, in turn, be verified &amp;ldquo;by seeing the relevant revenue document&amp;rdquo;, proving ownership of land. The rules also prohibit any purchase or sale of &amp;ldquo;young animals&amp;rdquo; from livestock markets.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&amp;rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. &amp;ldquo;Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?&amp;rdquo;, thunders Randhawa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&amp;rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&amp;rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &amp;mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &amp;mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The above trade &amp;mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &amp;mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&amp;rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&amp;rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &amp;ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &amp;hellip; within 50 km from any international border&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &amp;ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&amp;rdquo; remarks Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianexpress.com/article/india/livestock-economics-no-more-cows-to-come-home-for-these-farmers-4726868/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Punjab&amp;rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&amp;rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. &lt;br /&gt;
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Gurdaspur (Punjab): &lt;/em&gt;&amp;ldquo;When there&amp;rsquo;s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),&amp;rdquo; asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&amp;rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &amp;ldquo;agriculturists&amp;rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That the purchaser is an &amp;ldquo;agriculturist&amp;rdquo; would, in turn, be verified &amp;ldquo;by seeing the relevant revenue document&amp;rdquo;, proving ownership of land. The rules also prohibit any purchase or sale of &amp;ldquo;young animals&amp;rdquo; from livestock markets.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&amp;rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. &amp;ldquo;Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?&amp;rdquo;, thunders Randhawa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&amp;rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&amp;rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &amp;mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &amp;mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The above trade &amp;mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &amp;mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&amp;rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&amp;rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &amp;ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &amp;hellip; within 50 km from any international border&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &amp;ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&amp;rdquo; remarks Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianexpress.com/article/india/livestock-economics-no-more-cows-to-come-home-for-these-farmers-4726868/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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-The Indian Express&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Punjab&amp;rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&amp;rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gurdaspur (Punjab): &lt;/em&gt;&amp;ldquo;When there&amp;rsquo;s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),&amp;rdquo; asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&amp;rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &amp;ldquo;agriculturists&amp;rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That the purchaser is an &amp;ldquo;agriculturist&amp;rdquo; would, in turn, be verified &amp;ldquo;by seeing the relevant revenue document&amp;rdquo;, proving ownership of land. The rules also prohibit any purchase or sale of &amp;ldquo;young animals&amp;rdquo; from livestock markets.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&amp;rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. &amp;ldquo;Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?&amp;rdquo;, thunders Randhawa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&amp;rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&amp;rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&amp;rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&amp;rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &amp;mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &amp;mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The above trade &amp;mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &amp;mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&amp;rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&amp;rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &amp;ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &amp;hellip; within 50 km from any international border&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &amp;ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&amp;rdquo; remarks Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianexpress.com/article/india/livestock-economics-no-more-cows-to-come-home-for-these-farmers-4726868/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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The above trade &amp;mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &amp;mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&amp;rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&amp;rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &amp;ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &amp;hellip; within 50 km from any international border&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
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This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &amp;ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&amp;rdquo; remarks Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
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<em>Punjab&rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. <br />
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Gurdaspur (Punjab): </em>&ldquo;When there&rsquo;s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),&rdquo; asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious.<br />
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Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &ldquo;agriculturists&rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.<br />
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&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.<br />
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<br />
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.<br />
<br />
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.<br />
<br />
The above trade &mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.<br />
<br />
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &hellip; within 50 km from any international border&rdquo;.<br />
<br />
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-The Indian Express

Punjab&rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major...',
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-The Indian Express<br />
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<em>Punjab&rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. <br />
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Gurdaspur (Punjab): </em>&ldquo;When there&rsquo;s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),&rdquo; asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious.<br />
<br />
Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry&rsquo;s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be &ldquo;agriculturists&rdquo;. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis.<br />
<br />
That the purchaser is an &ldquo;agriculturist&rdquo; would, in turn, be verified &ldquo;by seeing the relevant revenue document&rdquo;, proving ownership of land. The rules also prohibit any purchase or sale of &ldquo;young animals&rdquo; from livestock markets.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,&rdquo; says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab&rsquo;s Gurdaspur district.<br />
<br />
Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. &ldquo;Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?&rdquo;, thunders Randhawa.<br />
<br />
More than 70 per cent of Punjab&rsquo;s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers&rsquo; Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana&rsquo;s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size.<br />
<br />
Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows &mdash; mostly HF crossbreds &mdash; worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year.<br />
<br />
The above trade &mdash; in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows &mdash; has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry&rsquo;s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw.<br />
<br />
According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn&rsquo;t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that &ldquo;no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or &hellip; within 50 km from any international border&rdquo;.<br />
<br />
This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. &ldquo;You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,&rdquo; remarks Singh.<br />
<br />
Please <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/livestock-economics-no-more-cows-to-come-home-for-these-farmers-4726868/">click here</a> to read more.&nbsp; <br />
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Punjab&rsquo;s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre&rsquo;s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab&rsquo;s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major...'
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Livestock economics: No more cows to come home for these farmers -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express Punjab’s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre’s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab’s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Gurdaspur (Punjab): “When there’s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we can no longer go to the pashu mandi (animal market),” asks Inderjit Singh Randhawa, the hurt in his voice obvious. Dairy farmers like him are likely to be impacted by the Union Environment Ministry’s May 23 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules that, among other things, require purchasers of cattle and buffaloes to be “agriculturists”. The ostensible objective here is to allow only animals intended for farming purposes, as opposed to slaughter, to be traded in pushu mandis. That the purchaser is an “agriculturist” would, in turn, be verified “by seeing the relevant revenue document”, proving ownership of land. The rules also prohibit any purchase or sale of “young animals” from livestock markets. “I don’t own any land, but my entire income comes from dairying, which involves purchase of animals, old and young, both for milking and rearing for further sale. These new rules will snatch my rozi roti (livelihood) and drive me and many others to commit suicide,” says Randhawa, who runs a 30-animal (all Holstein Friesians) dairy farm at Basrai village in Qadian tehsil of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. Randhawa started with just one cow over a decade back. He makes money both by selling milk and rearing animals for sale to other farmers. “Who are they (government) to tell me that I cannot buy animals or that my buyers can only be landowning farmers? Do only people in cities and big companies have the right to live and do business?”, thunders Randhawa. More than 70 per cent of Punjab’s farmers who are full-time into dairying are landless. Even the remaining 30 per cent own hardly one hectare, states Daljeet Singh Gill, president of the Progressive Dairy Farmers’ Association, whose own farm at Sadarpura in Ludhiana’s Jagraon tehsil began with about 20 cows in 1997 and has now grown to 400-plus herd size. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab’s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Till recently, an estimated three lakh cows — mostly HF crossbreds — worth Rs 2,300-2,400 crore were being transported from Punjab to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh every year. The above trade — in animals reared as calves till maturity in Punjab and sold to farmers wanting ready-to-be-milked cows — has suffered setbacks over the last couple of years, first from gau rakshak (cattle vigilante) activism and then demonetisation. These disruptions have brought down inter-state animal movement from Punjab to a third now. The environment ministry’s new rules could turn out to be the proverbial last straw. According to Inderjit Singh, director of the Punjab Dairy Development Board, the landholding requirement for purchase of cattle from markets isn’t the only problem. The new rules also mandate that “no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within 25 km from any state border or … within 50 km from any international border”. This practically means that most livestock mandis in districts bordering not only Pakistan (Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur), but also Rajasthan (Fazilka and Muktsar), Haryana (Mansa, Sangrur and Patiala) and Himachal Pradesh (Mohali, Ropar and Hoshiarpur will have to shut down. “You may as well shut down dairying activity in the entire state,” remarks Singh. Please click here to read more.