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India: Making milk ... in 24 hours
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India has a big demand for milk and milk products’, explained Bhaskar Reddy, general manager of the Mulukanoor Women’s Cooperative Dairy. ‘With its big population, it demands a lot of food.’
To help small dairy farmers exploit these new markets, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) teamed up with the Mulukanoor Women’s Cooperative Dairy in a two-part pilot study investigating the impacts of a new green fodder variety on milk productivity, and how this forage might also improve gender equity in India’s smallholder dairy sector.