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For securing the future of grandson sujata starts buffalo hubandry

Written by Maanushi Rana Publish date 11-Oct-2017
Sujata along with her buffalo
Sujata along with her buffalo

Sujata Aihole is a 27-year-old from Yadndranv, a small village in the Belgaum district of Karnataka. To make her living, she started working as a daily wage labourer in the nearby fields. In her meagre income, she could not afford to send her only daughter to school. So, she works as a daily wage labourer. Sujata’s daughter is married with a child. To help improve the financial status of her family and provide education to her grandchild, she decided to take a loan and start a buffalo husbandry. Sujata bought a buffalo at Rs. 27,000 clubbing her personal savings to the loan amount. Since there is not enough space near her home for the buffalo, she keeps it at her sister’s place. This way, she can go to work in the fields all day without having to worry about the buffalo. She feeds the buffalo the dried leaves that she can gather up from the field she works in and the leftover food from the previous day. On an average, she is able to get 5 litres of milk from the buffalo every day. She sells the milk to a nearby dairy at Rs. 30 per litre. She also makes dried cakes out of the cow-dung and uses it as a source of fuel for her daily cooking. Sujata has been able to repay the loan and lead a comfortable life with the additional earnings from the buffalo rearing. As she grows older, she is finding it more and more difficult to work all day in the agricultural fields. So, she is excited about the second loan she made recently to expand her buffalo husbandry and hopes that she can earn enough from the business alone that she can stop working in the fields a couple of years down the line.

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