A farmer maintaining two-animal unit can plan to gradually benefit by raising it to a ten-animal unit to generate income almost equal to what a school qualified can get as monthly salary for a job in a nearby town. The economics of such a unit has been worked out, assuming that it is managed by a farmer’s family having one hectare of land dedicated to fodder cultivation.

Today if any dairy organisation has to be successful, it has to imbibe the features of the Anand Pattern of milk procurement which is in reality a grand mix of the practices of an art, science, technology and philosophy. Milk procurement — a subject often considered non-technical — is in reality a grand mix of all these faculties.