Cow Farming
What we do
Gaushala (Animal Feeding)
Cow Farming
We want to maintain cows at Aaruh Foundation Gaushala (Cowshed), a place where cows are being kept & looked after systematically. Our Gaushala would have more than 1500 cows. The aim of preserving pure breeds. From more than a hundred varieties of cows in India there are now only 30 varieties. These cows would be feeded with nourishing & protein and vitamin rice foods. They will be regularly examined by veterinary doctors & treated accordingly. The cow is considered as a sacred & holy animal in Hindu religion. we worship cow on various occasions, and we call them Gomata.
We Should pay more attention to different kind of ethics like baby ethics and Animal ethics.
First Business Is to Comfort the Cows, Cows Protection Is Most Important Business of Human Society.
“Human Society Needs Only Sufficient Grain and Sufficient Cows to Solve Its Economic Problems “
Why This Cow Farming
- This cow farm consulting services focuses on efficiency as well as efficacy.
- This Cow project fully utilizes optimum local resources.
- Dairy farm Services Include the aspects of dairy farm operations such as Developing annual business plan, Farm layout, Manpower planning, Training sessions, Sourcing of Livestock, Fodder management Computation of feed, Optimization of operating costs and efficiency ratios.
- Provides the villagers complete end to end solutions in dairy farming .
- Designing of most economical, comfortable and secure cow sheds and other required spaces, Focus on maximizing productive investment and minimizing investment on non productive items, lucrative returns on investment.
- Extension to cow farmers and service for poor and needy children.
Need
Women is typically the most disadvantaged – supporting most of the family burdens (children, water, health, nutrition, etc..)
Opportunity
Starting with just one unit cows, a woman can build her own source of milk, manure, meat and money for the benefit of her family.
Training
The success & sustainability of the scheme for the women to learn both cow-rearing, and how to save and invest surplus income.
Cow Project – Direct Focus
- Increase average annual income of Project beneficiaries from raising cows and kitchen gardening.
- Improved Health Status of Project Beneficiaries
- Capacity Building of Project Beneficiaries towards sustainability
- Formation of Milk cooperatives
- Training SHGs (Self Help Groups)
Cow Project Achievements
- Dairy cow project milk production/Training program
- Training and extension of the projects to the nearby villages
- Formation of Cooperatives.
- Cooperative marketing.
- Better milk production and feeding/calf care.
- Farm management as micro enterprise.
- Training modules follow up as trained by Aaruh volunteers.
Dairy Project Strategy
- Study of the project villages in 2017.
- Establishment of Dairy farm in 2018 .
- Project extension and marketing 2019.
- Cooperative formation, training women SHGs and cow owners for better quality of milk and feeding and calf rearing orientation.
- qSelf sustaining, training and the profit is used for feeding poor children and taking care of Orphanage children’s.
Project Process Followed
- Cows shelter will be constructed.
- Calf shelter would be constructed.
- Drinking water, feeding arrangements done.
- Growing green fodder and paddy straw for cattle feeding.
- Purchase of Cows
- Formation of cooperative, training, marketing
- Procurement of milking machine and grass cutter.
Uses of Products in Goshala and there Benefits
- Cow dung serves priceless functions. For organic farming, manure is the best fertilizer containing natural pesticides. Dried dung cakes are used as fuel for cooking.
- Cow dung lined on the floor and walls of homes provides thermal insulation in cold weather, shields radiation and repels insects. Mixed in water and applied as thin washes, it works as a good disinfectant.
- Dung collected in a special vat creates biogas, which may be used to provide a stable source of electricity in villages.
- Distilled cow’s urine (gomutra) is a miracle medicine that cures a broad spectrum of diseases: from skin disorders to diabetes to cancer
- The goshala model is environmentally sustainable and profitable to farmers. Each product of a goshala is valuable and can be sold. Native breeds require a minimal amount of hay fodder, which can easily be procured from the farm as a by-product.