Name: Sumeet Patnaik

Roll number: uemf15029

A REPORT ON SARDA FARMS

Objective:

To further grow the well-established business and improve the productivity of milk in SARDA Farms.

Executive Summary:

Sarda dairy farm redifines dairy sytem from a traditional to an advanced organic system. There strength mainly includes the zero contamination and zero adulterated milk.

The genesis of a Sarda Farms is based on the fact that an entire, generation in India has been exposed to contaminated or adulterated milk and this menace is spreading every day. Sarda Farms promises its customer undefiled natural cow’s milk, which has all the natural nutrients growing children and adults need.

Lactation period: 305 days. Two consecutive heats: 21 days. Artificial Insemination: After 42 days with success rate of pregnancy 65% (1st

AI), 45%(2nd AI) Mortality Rate: Currently 2% Costly imported same sex serum. Maintaining bulls: Rs 300 per day. Future bull station and semen sale plan. Herringbone milking parlour: Batch of 24 cows milked. Software Interlock: Milk produced after giving birth to calve not suitable for

sale for next few days. Yield of cow directly related to cow comfort. Demand variation, price fluctuation for manure beyond control of the farm. Feed covers one third of total cost. Feed recipes different based on lactation cycle. MBRT for quality assurance and shelf life.

Issues & Recommendations:

The continuous milk production is based on assumption that different cows are at different stages of lactation period across the year.

Improvement can be done either by: Improving the existing facilities Avenues for new investments or assets to enhance productivity

Improving the existing facilities:

Product -Process Matrix

One Off

Low Volume High Vol

Mass

Jumbled Jumbled but Dominant Line Flow Current Process

Continuous Flow Suggested Process

If SARDA Dairy farm changes its current operation from i.e. Line Flow Herringbone (design of Milk Parlour) to Rotary Milking Parlour, we can save a lot of time in Milk Production as it is a continuous flow and doesn’t require set up time.

Or else, Addition of new milking units with Rotary design. As per our analysis, a Rotary design will prove to be more efficient in the cow milking process especially when the herd size is large. It reduces the turnaround time for milking a cow as well as significant reduction in manpower. This should help in cost reduction and productivity increase in the long run.

Improvement of success rate during the Artificial Insemination period: It is observed that the frequency of lactation period is dependent on the success rate of pregnancy after the first AI where the probability of impregnation is significantly higher than second heat period. To reduce the delay of the next lactation period, farm should work upon improving the process of AI in the first attempt. Whether the biological factors are feasible or not, should be consulted with the centenary expert.

Number of cattle’s in the lactation periods are to be taken care of. The ratio of no of actively lactating cows to the total no of cows has to be within a permissible range (but not low) and the range has to be observed and free zed. Once a range is known then the milking, feeding processes per shift can be maintained. This will avoid bottleneck station shifting.

With existing processes, milking all the cows in the batch are not feasible in the specified timeline. Hence it is recommended to add more manpower during the milking process to reduce the waiting time for other cows. In current scenario, while milking three cows, 21 were in waiting.

Decoupling point

By implementing the continuous process as suggested above, the time saved can be used

to manufacture other milk products (Butter, ghee etc.) which can be done by using historical data of customers that is obtained from SARDA online ordering system and various forecasting techniques can be used to move decoupling point towards the supplier. (As products like Ghee, Butter and cheese have high shell life it reduces loss or wastage).

Cost Minimization:

Bulls can be sold to various slaughter house which will convert them from wastage to revenue stream and which will give SARDA Farm a boost to try various breeding techniques and methods.