Milk cans
Sanjiv represents the third generation of his family to run a dairy business and provide agribusiness services (forage seed, cattle feed) for 230 farmers in Nagla Roran village, on the outskirts of Karnal, in India's northern Haryana State. Dairy enterprises are 'value-added' opportunities for small-scale farmers here and are helping to close the gap between urban and rural livelihoods. Dairy businesses have raised living standards in the village, which has paved roads. All the adults now have cell phones and most households have more than one television set. Three years ago, at the birth of his daughter Mishti, Sanjiv considered starting a non-dairy business but his mother refused to stop keeping her herd of milk cows and buffaloes, and so he undertook training at the Business Planning & Development Unit of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), India's premier dairy institution, in nearby Karnal, and began building up businesses that add value to the milk his mother's cows produce (photo credit: ILRI/Jules Mateo).
Milk cans
Sanjiv represents the third generation of his family to run a dairy business and provide agribusiness services (forage seed, cattle feed) for 230 farmers in Nagla Roran village, on the outskirts of Karnal, in India's northern Haryana State. Dairy enterprises are 'value-added' opportunities for small-scale farmers here and are helping to close the gap between urban and rural livelihoods. Dairy businesses have raised living standards in the village, which has paved roads. All the adults now have cell phones and most households have more than one television set. Three years ago, at the birth of his daughter Mishti, Sanjiv considered starting a non-dairy business but his mother refused to stop keeping her herd of milk cows and buffaloes, and so he undertook training at the Business Planning & Development Unit of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), India's premier dairy institution, in nearby Karnal, and began building up businesses that add value to the milk his mother's cows produce (photo credit: ILRI/Jules Mateo).