05Southern plains

Ganjam

Small-herd dairy on the southern plains, feeding the bilona ghee line.

Classification
Southern plains
Crops
Dairy, jaggery, black gram
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Standing with two producers at the edge of a field in Ganjam
Woman producer seated beside her graded produce at a village market
Dairy, jaggery, black gram

Small-herd dairy feeding the bilona ghee line.

01The belt

Ganjam's dairy is small-herd by default rather than by positioning. That caps how much milk is available at once, which caps the batch size of the ghee, which is why the bilona line is genuinely small-batch instead of describing itself that way.

Bilona takes a day longer than machine separation and produces less from the same milk. On a small herd that trade is affordable. At scale it would not be, which is roughly why most ghee is not made this way.

Jaggery and black gram come from the same southern belt.

03From this district

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Buyers get a direct enquiry route. Programme partners get the practice that establishes a belt from baseline to market.