what do you need to know about setting up a cow protection farm

To the help the UK with a National Dairy Plan for ISKCON the following ten questions can form the basis of a more detailed dairy analysis.

National Dairy Plan

Zonal Plan Outline Preparation (ISKCON UK has 5 Zones)

Questions to Answer

1. How much milk is required to provide for the milk and milk products
   1. For main centres this can be derived from historic records
   2. For large festivals (such as Janmastami) a separate analysis should be made to see how big a single event has on the plan
   3. An estimate needs to be considered for how much milk would need to be available for the community
2. How many cows need to be impregnated each year to provide the targeted milk supply
3. How large will the herd grow to by increasing the herd to fulfil the milk requirements
   1. This needs to calculated to 15 years of growth
4. How much land or farm facilities are required to provide for this size herd
   1. Of this land and farm requirement how much should come from purchase, from rental and how much crops from others land.
5. What is the estimated cost of the purchased land and resources
   1. What is the annual cost of rented land
6. What are the proposed means to raise the money for land and resource purchase
7. What is the annual budget for the total farm in year one and projected to year 15
8. What are the labour requirements
   1. What types of work
   2. Give specific attention to the amount of people that will be engaged in ox work
   3. How many full time posts will be required
9. What ideas are there how the temple and departments can pay for their increased dairy budget (accepting notion that Cow Protection dairy is more costly than conventional)
10. Estimated time to implementation