This document summarizes a cow dairy project partnership between SEVAI, OFI-France, and other European organizations. The project aims to improve the livelihoods of women and their families through training women in cow rearing, milk production, and forming milk cooperatives. Key activities included constructing cow shelters, purchasing cows, growing fodder, training women in animal husbandry and financial management, and establishing a milk cooperative to market the produced milk. The project has led to increased milk production and incomes for participating women. Financial reporting indicates the project assets exceed initial funding, with plans to repay loans through continued milk sales and revolving funds.

2. Cow Dairy Project partners
• OFI-French volunteers/ supporters OFI-France.
• Agence des Microprojets Guilde Européenne du
Raid.

3. SEVAI – Seven Principles
 Community is the Agent for Development
 Crisis is the Opportune moment for initiating
Development
 No one should be assisted unless they be tested
for Community Spirit
 Gender Perspective – “Equal Wage for Work”
 Development is Chain reaction – “Spiral Effect”
 Development is Qualitative Challenge
 Real Development is Real Presence

4. Why this cow farming
SEVAI/OFI Partners Dairy farm Services
• Provides the villagers complete end to end solutions in dairy farming
• This cow farm consulting services focuses on efficiency as well as
efficacy.
• This Cow project fully utilizes optimum local resources.
• SEVAI/OFI Partners Dairy farm Services Include the aspects of
dairy farm operations such as:
• Developing annual business plan, Farm layout, Manpower planning,
Training sessions, Sourcing of Livestock, Fodder management
Computation of feed, Optimization of operating costs and efficiency
ratios.
• Designing of most economical, comfortable and secure cow sheds
and other required spaces, Focus on maximizing productive
investment and minimizing investment on non productive items,
lucrative returns on investment.
• Etension to cow farmers and service for poor and needy children

5. The Need, Opportunity, Training &
Sustainability
• The Need :women are typically the most
disadvantaged – supporting most of the family
burdens (children, water, health, nutrition,
etc)…
• Opportunity: Starting with just one unit cows,
a woman can build her own source of milk,
manure, meat and money for the benefit of
her family.
• Training & Sustainability – it is key to the
success & sustainability of the scheme for the
women to learn both cow-rearing (including
animal health), and how to save and invest
surplus income.

6. Cow Project -direct focus
• Increase average annual income of Project beneficiaries
from raising cows and kitchen gardening
• Improved Health Status of Project Beneficiaries
• Capacity Building of Project Beneficiaries towards
sustainability
• Formation of Milk cooperatives
• Training SHGs

7. Cow project Achievements
• Dairy cow project milk production/Training program
• Training and extension of the projects to the nearby
villages
• Formation of Cooperatives.
• Cooperative marketing.
• Better milk production and feeding/calf care.
• Farm management as micro enterprise.
• Training modules follow up as trained by French
volunteers.

8. Dairy Project strategy
• Study of the project villages in 2011.
• Establishment of Dairy farm in 2012
• Project extension and marketing 2013.
• Cooperative formation, training women SHGs
and cow owners for better quality of milk and
feeding and calf rearing orientation.
• Self sustaining, training and the profit is used for
feeding poor children and taking care of
handicapped children

9. Project process followed
• Cows shelter has been constructed.
• Calf shelter has been constructed.
• Drinking water, feeding arrangements done.
• Growing green fodder and paddy straw for cattle
feeding.
• Purchase of Cows
• Formation of cooperative,training,marketing
• Procurement of milking machine and grass cutter.
• Setting up a goat unit as auxiliary project

10. Construction of Cow shelter

11. Selection of cows in Erode market with
the help of Vet.

12. Cows purchased

13. Drinking water intake increase

14. Milking cows with milking machines

15. Training women Cow farmers

16. Green fodder feeding the cows

17. French Vet. Volunteers observation/guidance

18. Green fodder cultivation

19. Fodder transportation to cow farm

20. Calves shelter

21. Grass cutter

22. Vet. Care of Cows & AI

23. OFI Vice President Mrs.Benjamine Oberoi
visits the farm

24. Women SHGs training in cow farm

25. Testing milking pressure of machine

26. Feeding the calves

27. Village level extension of cow project

28. Hand milking by women

29. Supply of Milk to cooperative

30. Financial status
• Grant received from OFI-France EURO= 12211 equal to
Indian Rs.886213.
• The sales of milk is Rs.836000.
• Loan taken from Dr.Benjamine and other sources is
Rs.1094967.
• The current value of loan in Euros:13685 to be repaid.
• The project has asset of 29 cows,14 calves, one milking
machine, two grass cutting machine and infrastructure
for maintaining these cows and their calves
• SEVAI needs to repay the loan of 13685 Euros.
• Working revolving fund of Indian Rupees 500000.

31. Auxiliary goat rearing project

32. SEVAI Thanks