As explained above dont sell Milk but sell Ghee… this is true for all the farm produce… dont sell raw material… sell processed goods… it adds value to the raw material. Dont sell cotton but sell cloth… and Ghee is comparatively very easy to make. If you sell 8 Ltr of milk you will only get a maximum of say Rs 40 x 8Ltrs = Rs320. While if you sell the same amount of milk turned into ghee you will get a minimum of Rs 1300 for 1 KG ghee. FOUR TIMES MORE… AT 8 TIMES LESS DISTRIBUTION & STORING EXPENSES You can even charge more (if you are too greedy) because it is A2 Ghee as it is sourced from Indian breeds.
If you are purely into milk production and distribution then you will need expensive equipments to cold store the milk, to pasteurize the milk, also while taking in milk tanker to far places like shops in city.
The art of turning Milk into Ghee (via curds) not only reduces the volume drastically, increases the profit drastically but also preserves the quality 100%. But during the whole process care has to be taken that will not reduce the quality of Ghee. Nobody should be able to find fault either in process or in packaging. Neither is there any requirement to cheat as there is enough profit from this without the cost involved of Milk preservation and distribution.
Why To Do this Business? In any business there is always the question of Why you want to do this business and not any other business? Personally I feel that rearing cow and looking after it is one of the most noblest of profession. And make no mistake the Cow can live without you but you need the cow. So next time you boast to people “Me 100 gai pal rahe hai” be humble that 100 cow are feeding you and not the other way around. Love the cow the right kind of cow can keep you family healthy and wealthy. You will not have to do any other kind of farming. But if you do the cowdung that you put in it will enhance that farming 10 times more.
The Desi Indian Breed is a must if you are into other kinds of farming as 1 cow can fertilize 30 acres of farmland. Yes 30 Acres… no typing error there. But if you have Genetically Modified animal like Jersey and Holstein, HF and shit… then its dung and urine is WORTHLESS because the good bacteria needed in it is only around 10% which is not good as fertiliser nor for biogas production.
If you have more than 2 cow it is a must to create a biogas digester. The cheapest one from Sintex cost only Rs 15,000. It has to be so designed that the cowdung & urine from the cowshed will flow into the digester and the outlet from the digester should fall in a 1 sqmtr tank which will have water incoming valve in it so that both water and the dung can be processed along with jaggery, mud from field and chane ka atta. This can be preserved under shade for a few days and then pumped from the outflow at the bottom of the tank into the field.
The biogas got from the above digester can be stored in a balloons which can be used to power Generator set to provide electricity to run Air-conditioner on those warm and humid nights for free.
The roof of the House & the Stable must install Solar Panels and if wind is good then also wind turbine. These are one time expense which will payback over years and generations. If you are finding the cost of solar panels as expensive then you could install solar panels without batteries and still get benefit during day time while the budget gets reduced 50%.