03-09-2008, 08:22 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Israeli dairy to come up in Amul's backyard</b>
9 Mar 2008
GANDHINAGAR: The Israelis will set up their first big venture in the country by starting a dairy farm in Gujarat. An Israeli firm, Elbit Imaging, has decided to import 10,000 high-breed milch cows to set up a $100-million dairy unit at two locations in north Gujarat.
<b>The project is said to be a fallout of chief minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel in May 2006. The move is significant as Gujarat is the home for the milk cooperatives. Besides, while the US government is still keeping Narendra Modi's Gujarat at bay by denying him a visa, the Jewish nation has extended a hand of friendship to an Indian state where the leadership has taken a firm stance against terror.</b>
The Gujarat government has leased out 143 hectares of land in two areas to the firm for 30 years to set up the dairy.
The company proposes to implement the project in two phases. First, it will import 4,000 cows in order to establish a state-of-the-art dairy plant on 43 hectares at Ambasan village in Mehsana district. This was the Buffalo Bull Mother Farm run by the state animal husbandry department, which was shut down around 15 years ago. In the second phase, Elbit Imaging will import another 6,000 cows to extend the project to 100 hectares of land.
Elbit executives say Israeli cows produce around 25 to 30 litres of milk per day, compared to 3 to 9 litres by local breeds. Milk production from the best breeds like Kankrej and Gir cows, too, is the depleting. The frozen semen of the Israeli bulls would help here. Gujarats cattle breeders can expect to gain considerably in terms of technique and yield from this project.
Bureaucrats in the chief ministers office, who are particularly enthusiastic about the project, said the Israeli firm would inevitably challenge the states powerful milk cooperatives by giving better products.
<b>The plan is to introduce contract farming on 2,000 hectares of land where dry fodder will be produced with drip irrigation method, turning it into easily digestible nutritious feed.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This one is sure to burn the hearts of islamists and their communists friends. <!--emo&
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Need more such co-operation. Wonder what would happen if the israeli model of irrigation could be implemented in the deserts of Rajasthan.
9 Mar 2008
GANDHINAGAR: The Israelis will set up their first big venture in the country by starting a dairy farm in Gujarat. An Israeli firm, Elbit Imaging, has decided to import 10,000 high-breed milch cows to set up a $100-million dairy unit at two locations in north Gujarat.
<b>The project is said to be a fallout of chief minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel in May 2006. The move is significant as Gujarat is the home for the milk cooperatives. Besides, while the US government is still keeping Narendra Modi's Gujarat at bay by denying him a visa, the Jewish nation has extended a hand of friendship to an Indian state where the leadership has taken a firm stance against terror.</b>
The Gujarat government has leased out 143 hectares of land in two areas to the firm for 30 years to set up the dairy.
The company proposes to implement the project in two phases. First, it will import 4,000 cows in order to establish a state-of-the-art dairy plant on 43 hectares at Ambasan village in Mehsana district. This was the Buffalo Bull Mother Farm run by the state animal husbandry department, which was shut down around 15 years ago. In the second phase, Elbit Imaging will import another 6,000 cows to extend the project to 100 hectares of land.
Elbit executives say Israeli cows produce around 25 to 30 litres of milk per day, compared to 3 to 9 litres by local breeds. Milk production from the best breeds like Kankrej and Gir cows, too, is the depleting. The frozen semen of the Israeli bulls would help here. Gujarats cattle breeders can expect to gain considerably in terms of technique and yield from this project.
Bureaucrats in the chief ministers office, who are particularly enthusiastic about the project, said the Israeli firm would inevitably challenge the states powerful milk cooperatives by giving better products.
<b>The plan is to introduce contract farming on 2,000 hectares of land where dry fodder will be produced with drip irrigation method, turning it into easily digestible nutritious feed.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This one is sure to burn the hearts of islamists and their communists friends. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->Need more such co-operation. Wonder what would happen if the israeli model of irrigation could be implemented in the deserts of Rajasthan.