Tapping the nascent market for donkey milk
Adjacent to the NHAI toll plaza in Kuderu mandal’s Jallipalli lies a sprawling 10-acre enclosure on which roam 28 donkeys, belonging to couple Tejaswini and Venkatesh. Tejaswini, an engineering diploma holder, and Venkatesh, once a successful railway contractor, gave up their professions and invested ₹45 lakh into their business idea — establishing a farm to […]
Dairy industry witness an innovation galore during Covid times
Dairy farming is a crucial component of rural economy, which has the highest potential of generating income and employment through augmenting productivity of milch animals. It is an effective instrument of social and economic change. India is the largest milk producer in the world. In the last three decades, world milk production has increased by […]
Donkey milk resembles human milk the most and available at Rs 7000 per liter
The use of donkey milk by humans for alimentary and cosmetic purposes has been popular since Egyptian antiquity. Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC), the father of medicine, was the first to write of the medicinal virtues of donkey milk. Pauline Bonaparte (1780–1825), Napoleon’s sister, is also reported to have used Donkey milk for her skin’s […]
