Why Gir is the New Jersy Cow of India?- Save Indigenous Cows of India
We love to coin words, most recent being A2 milk, Organic, ZBNF, Biodynamic, Permaculture, Slow food, Hydrophonics , Gluten free etc. etc. enough to get a common man dizzy while making a food decision. Currently, we are experiencing, what can be termed as the second “White Revolution” (read milk) as opposed to Green Revolution (read chemical farming). In past 3 years, we have had many young 30 some things (invariably an IT professional or a fresh agri graduate looking for business opportunity and a close to nature experience as a perk) visiting our Gau Shala and office. Their knowledge of cow starts with GIR and ends there. GIR has become the undisputed queen of the COW world. How? Well its just the clever marketing. As usual the non suspecting fell for it. GIR is beautiful, she has the most amazing set of eyes which will melt anyone. But show me an ugly Cow or an animal. So what is special about this one? She belonged to the Gir forest in Gujarat. Alright. Since the conversation