Introduction
Nepal is a least developed landlocked agricultural country. About 65% of the population has been engaged in agriculture. Livestock rearing/farming in an integral part of every farmer. Livestock sectors have contributed about 29% to the national AGDP and 11% to the GDP. Around 4, 50,000 people are involved in cattle farming in the country and more than 20,000 farmers are producing dairy milk.
The Major components of livestock GDP are milk and milk products from buffalo and cattle. Currently, dairy farmers produce around 4.8 million litres of milk per day.As our nation has agricultural background with growing livestock farming sectors,the purposed cowand buffalo farmwill be the milestone for the supply of the dairy products.
Banepa is one of the most important districts in central Nepal. The districts has got lots of potentiality for livestock raising. Cow and buffalo farming in Nepal is an ancient farming system still practiced tradionally all over Nepal. Commercial cowand buffalo farming in Nepal is recently introduce and becoming popular between farmers.Cow Farming is a source for generating income of nepal,peoples use to sell the milk on market, maximize benefits and survive their lives. Rapid Urbanisation and massive migration of people from rural to urban in search of better opportunities has its positive impact on cow farming as well. Currently, annual milk production is going up by around 4 percent, whereas annual milk demand is jumping by 8 percent, according to the data of Department of Livestock. The government has established department of livestock services for the growth and development of livestock sector. It has strong network of extension and several organization and programs responsible for the development and quality control of the livestock sector across the country. The public extension services including dissemination of technology, information and training for increasing livestock products production, income generation and sustainability, are conducted by all its district officers.The demand of milk and milk products have been increasing at a faster rate in the recent years.As a result, there are lots of possibility in cow farming.
On the basis of this background, a business chaired by Mr. Durga Pd Dahal, from Banepa Ward No.9 , Banepa is planning for additional investments in M/s Shubharambha Dairy and Agrovet Research Pvt. Ltd to contribute:
a) Demands of Milks & Calves Production
b) Provide Direct & Indirect Employment
c) Promote agriculture Business.
d) Industrialize the milk based products.
This report deals with the feasibility study of a setting up company. This report contains introduction of the project, market prospect and comparison with similar organizations, technical aspect and financial projection of coming 10 years.