-Down to Earth Change is taking place in the way the Centre and state governments look at pastoralism; the belief that livestock management is done better in stable conditions is changing The opening up of India’s first camel dairy at Nakhatrana taluka in Gujarat’s Kutch district in 2018 helped Mura Mangal resume pastoralism. “In 2006, we had some goats, but it was getting difficult to earn enough money. So I took up a...

-Newsclick.in India produces 22% of the world’s total milk production; India is also the largest sheep and goat meat exporter. It is among the largest exporters of bovine meat too. There must be something that livestock producers in India have got right, argues Dr Kohler-Rollefson. On April 11, 2022, researcher Dr Ilse Kohler Rollefson, who has long worked among the camel herders of Rajasthan, delivered the keynote address at the National Livestock...

-Financial Express From camelccino to Camel Milk chocolate, there’s no dearth of delicacies on offer. Camel Milk is in the news. And hailing its virtue is none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a gathering of farmers in Anand, Gujarat, in October, Modi narrated how he was ridiculed for describing Camel Milk as nutritious once. It was during his stint as chief minister of Gujarat that he had tried promoting camel...

-GovernanceNow.com Banning cattle slaughter, like demonetisation, may deliver political gains but will hit the rural economy hard More than a century ago, a team of officials from Brazil toured some villages of Kheda district, in central Gujarat. They had come to procure breeding bulls of the famous Kankreji breed, notes Bhailal Patel, a charismatic institution-builder who was also the first leader of opposition in Gujarat assembly, in his memoirs. It was of...

-TheWire.in To oppose the forest department’s plan to limit open grazing, the pastoral community is formally pursuing their collective land rights through the Forest Rights Act. The sun has not yet decided to rise. It’s pitch black out but a group of Maldharis has already assembled for the last session of this year’s milking competition. Their massive buffalos are majestically adorned with intricate garlands and colourful necklaces. The panch (group of five...