Concept Paper on Milking Cow Farming : A Lucrative Farming

Background:

Dairy farming is a class of agricultural, or an animal husbandry, enterprise, for long-term production of milk, usually from dairy cows but also from goats and sheep, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy factory for processing and eventual retail sale.
Most dairy farms sell the male calves born by their cows, usually for veal production, or breeding depending on quality of the bull calf, rather than raising non-milk-producing stock. Many dairy farms also grow their own feed, typically including corn, alfalfa, and hay. This is fed directly to the cows, or is stored as silage for use during the winter season. Additional dietary supplements are often added to the feed to increase quality milk production.

Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. Hunting and gathering age is the first step of dairy production; with the development of industrialization dairy production is hiked. Historically it has been one part of small, diverse farms. In the last century or so larger farms doing only dairy production have emerged. Large scale dairy farming is only viable where either a large amount of milk is required for production of more durable dairy products such as cheese, butter, etc or there is a substantial market of people with cash to buy milk, but no cows of their own.

Preparation and Analysis:

We could not found weakness and flaws in technical, managerial, social, commercial,  economical aspects of milking cow farming. But financially we are searching big investors. Cow farming is fit in culturally in this Hindu dominated society.

Socially, this project will be run 26 Km east from Kathmandu valley, far from people dwelling places, technically we are prepared as we have sufficient land, feeding material, veterinary medicine, doctors, water, electricity, telephone, milking equipments and essential machineries. Our managerial aspect also prepared and ready to run the farm, they also prepare to be stops the errors. Commercially, milking farm is suited for Nepal because of grooming of the dairy industry, today; one of the export materials is dairy production from Nepal. Economically, this farm is profitable for the investors.

Objectives :

The Milking cow farm is long term project which products different dairy items. As we have main objectives are as follows.

Primary Objectives

1.       Primarily, to produce the quality milk by professional way.

2.       To produce the organic fertilizer from the wastage of cow.

Secondary Objectives

3.       To produce Bio-gas using byproduct of cow droppings.

4.       To produce the beef by adult bull, industrially.

5.       To produce the raw material for leather by unproductive cow.

6.       To produce raw material for poultry and pig husbandry from the unproductive cow bones.

Rationale

In the Nepalese context cattle farming is began in the religious point of views, but socially it has great meaning. If the cow is not kept in religious point of view there was not any bull for plough in the great Indian subcontinent. So, people did not give their attention milk cow. They just needed for fertilizer and bull for plough.

Now the circumstances and population is changed, people needed milk, hygienic foods made from milk.