A Handbook For Dairy Entrepreneurs

The publication provides fundamental information about dairy farming. The book covers the basic knowledge about how to start an entrepreneurial dairy farming covering almost all the basic aspects related to the field. The information provided is scientific and cosmopolitan and will be useful for small scale dairy farming. This book covers all the elements of dairy production with the goal of helping the dairy owners to keep their animals as healthy as possible. It covers areas including breeds and breeding management, housing and feeding management, basics of dairy animal diseases, disease prevention and control measures etc. This book will serve as a complete encyclopedia of dairy husbandry practices and will help to guide practicing dairy farmers as well as starter (youth entrepreneur) in starting the dairy entrepreneurial venture from the scratch. This book provides the first hand knowledge to the entrepreneurs to start the dairy farming by using the resources present locally. The topics in the book are so designed that even by looking at the pictorial representations one can get the idea of how to start the dairy farming. The book also popularizes the use of non- conventional items present at rural households and their significant use in dairy animal rearing.