Milk Trade in Villages

May 21 at 9:19 AM · 

Todays morning picture. Down our street.

The last drop of milk being carted away from the village.
Not a drop left behind for village children.

In village after village.No village child has milk. Every drop is supplied to cities.

The impoverishment of village economy. Makes them have to sell every drop. Leaving their children malnourished.

The milk money is all that sustains them in villages. Allows them to buy bare rice.

In drought when even straw has to be purchased, as there is not a blade of grass. It is uncertain if there is any net income at all. Or if it is loss.

The children and elders graze the cows in the merciless sun. Milk them. And send the milk to cities.

In the days of lower milk production.

Before the so called White Revolution

The milk stayed in the village. The children had milk.

The statistics that speak if Growth and Development.
Of higher milk production. Of rising GDP.

Have these realities and stories behind them ...

The time has come.

When every so called moden success story needs to be revisited. And real implications seen. In brutal honesty.

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  Manohar Kamath I met people who implemented government milk schemes in Madhya Pradesh (after the so called success of Gujarat in milk). 
  Villagers would beat them, when they came to buy milk. The cow and the cows milk was holy and not to be sold. For the MP villagers selling of milk was a sin.
  "It took a long time to convert a Dharmic issue into an Arthic issue"
  Modern Market Economics has no compassion - not for the cow, the calf, the milk, the child, the labourer, the trader or the consumer... Like most systems it can make the us incredibly inhumane...

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  Gilbert Dsouza More milk sold , more money in the house... for education, household requirements , medicine , feed . if milk is retained healthy calf and children . A balance is needed and be left to the farmer. In my case , my entire education, up to graduation , was taken care of by cows !

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  Aparna Krishnan Cow is essential to rural economy. And yet poverty should not reach levels where the farmer is unable to retain any milk for his own young children.
  
  That is the failure.

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  Subramani Reddy The concept of money/currency and the concept of centralised state are biggest things to revisit. They are inspired by Devine right theory. If they are revisited, everything else falls inline.

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  Subramani Reddy Poverty started only after the invaders came here and established Devine right theory! Which says every thing is a resource and it is owned by the ruler! Bharatiya rajas were not having any ownership on land and humans and everything. 
  
  This basic thing we need to understand as to how poverty came!

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