Supporters interview Gauri Poudel (far left) from Birendranagar
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Clive Quick
Issue Date
30/01/2015 , 03/12/2012
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Food , Agriculture
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Dairy Farmers Livelihoods DAULAT MASF 5000305
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CASE STUDY: Gauri Poudel Gauri Poudel, 51 years old, is a member of the cooperative set up under the dairy project and belongs to the Milk Producers Group in Birendranagar which now cultivates improved (Napier) grass for fodder on land leased from a school. She and her husband have eight children, six daughters and two sons. When asked about her responsibilities, she proudly said they were to cook food, take care of the children, support her husband, and to look after the animals by collecting fodder and milking the cows. She was very clear that the project had significantly changed her life and that of her family. Before, she had no knowledge of how to keep animals in good condition and, as a result, there were problems of infertility due to undernourishment and milk yields were very low (3-4 litres per day per animal). Now, following training on grass cultivation and animal husbandry from project workers, yields have gone up to at least 6 litres per animal and the family income from selling milk has therefore nearly doubled. This has made a real impact on her life. She has been able to send one of her sons to India to study engineering (although she misses him greatly) and, perhaps most importantly, she no longer has to survive by borrowing money from her neighbours. Gauri and her family are now free of debt and independent for the first time in their lives.
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