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Bhutanese Cows – Series 2

A set of video images of calves in rural Bhutan

Format: DV 720×576

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Cows are mainly used for milk production in rural Bhutan. For Hindus cows are sacred, a provider of food and symbol of life.

Cows provide an abundance of important products, including milk, browned butter for lamps, and fuel from dried dung. Bulls are used for breeding and for pulling ploughs.

Milk and milk products make a sizeable part of the income of small scale farmers as well as contributing to a healthy diet for children and adults alike.

Non milk producing cows may be slaughtered for meat, so beef in Bhutan, coming from old livestock, can often be rather tough .

Farm

Bhutanese Cows – Series 1

A set of video images of calves in rural Bhutan

Format: DV 720×576

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Cows are mainly used for milk production in rural Bhutan. For Hindus cows are sacred, a provider of food and symbol of life.

Cows provide an abundance of important products, including milk, browned butter for lamps, and fuel from dried dung. Bulls are used for breeding and for pulling ploughs.

Milk and milk products make a sizeable part of the income of small scale farmers as well as contributing to a healthy diet for children and adults alike.

Non milk producing cows may be slaughtered for meat, so beef in Bhutan, coming from old livestock, can often be rather tough .

Farm

Bhutanese Chickens – Series 10

A set of video images of chickens in rural Bhutan

Format: DV 720×576

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Typically chickens roam free with their chicks providing eggs and meat for cash and food. Small producers are being encouraged under a government initiative to start small batteries of 400 hens.

The chicks are supplied by the government to insure they are free from bird flu. Eggs and meat have a guaranteed market which the government helps the farmers to reach with good prices sharing wealth from the city to rural provinces.