New Delhi, June 18 -- Farmer-owned First Milk is rolling out a new freshwater strategy across its 700 member farms, which is says will address "a long-standing challenge for the dairy sector: how to measure and target water quality risks practically and consistently at farm and field level".
The work comes amid growing national focus on river health, freshwater resilience and the need for more targeted, evidence-led approaches to land and water management.
The co-op says the programme, which draws on two years of nutrient footprinting, developed with Farm Carbon Toolkit, and satellite-led risk mapping produced by Senus, will identify where nutrient pressure and landscape risk overlap.
This allows support and intervention to be prioritise...