Many farms in China have big milking parlours and often those have so many employees that the efficiency drops dramatically. Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
There are many things that are different between dairy farmers in different countries, and I am not only talking about the yield or the environment. When you have been working as an advisor for years in a country like Denmark, where most dairy farmers focus on efficiency and optimal use of labour, and then you move to a developing country, you find out that most of the dairy farmers in the developing countries have far too many employees.
Why many farm employees?
Why? Well for some farmers it
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