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| J&K farmers keen on large scale dairy farming: JKDFA | | Nominates Mukesh Raina as border belt Incharge Nowshera, Lamberi, Sunerbani | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 12: J&K Dairy Farmers Association expanding foothold of Association Sunday nominated Mukesh Raina as border belt Incharge Nowshera, Lamberi and Sunerbani. Working President of Association Kulbhushan Khajuria, Vice Presidents Surjeet Singh, Kishore Kumar, Treasurer Sukh Dev Chowdhary, General Secretary Tarun Sharma and President Jammu Province Sandeep Singh Chib were present on the occasion.
Working President of Association Kulbhushan Khajuria speaking on the on the occasion said dairy farming sector can be a profitable venture among the youth if more and more start-ups and dairy units get government-sponsored initiatives and incentives and if genuine demands of dairy farming association are addressed timely and properly.He said livestock is emerging as an important sector in the economy of Jammu and Kashmir and plays an important role in the socio-economic development of Jammu and Kashmir. Dairying has a potential source of additional income for the rural people of Jammu and Kashmir, added Khajuria.
Chib in his address said that farmers in J&K no longer see dairy farming as a part-time venture and instead have taken it up as a full-fledged profession. "Farmers in J&K are now quite keen on running a dairy farm on large-scale, which will help in cutting the cost of milk production considerably and help in getting remunerative rates," he said. Traditionally, J&K farmers used to have just 10 to 20 cattle per farm. "But now, farmers have started owning dairy farms with 100 to 200 cattle for producing milk in bulk," he said.Dairying is like a Test match. You have to be patient," he said, as one cannot expect "profit" immediately. But dairying is the only farm activity where one could get daily income or weekly income and market the product directly to customers without middlemen.
Chib maintained that there have been a lot of challenges in this sector, adding that the need of the hour is to work out on all the modalities and trying to prepare a roadmap to help the dairy farmers and others associated with this sector. In this regard he said for improving milk production and productivity govt should think of various interventions.
The dairy-farming has a potential to generate jobs for thousands of unemployed youth in Jammu and Kashmir provided Government's priority should be to promote local milk-processing units. Chib observed that Government must do more to help as dairy farmers need a stable market and better pricing for liquid milk, affordable, uninterrupted supply of feed and reliable veterinary services, added Chib. |
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