Dairy farming is a modern occupation. Explain

Explanation

It is absolutely right to say that dairy farming is a modern occupation. It is a type of agriculture in which major emphasis is on breeding and rearing milch cattle. Its main features are given below which can prove that it is a modern occupation:
(i) It is highly capital intensive. Large investments are made on animal sheds, storage facilities for fodder, feeding and milching machines.
(ii) Special emphasis is laid on cattle-breeding, health care and veterinary services.
(iii) It is also highly-labour intensive as it involves painstaking care in feeding and milching.
(iv) There is no off season during the year.
(v) It is practised mainly near urban and industrial market.
(vi) Dairy farming development depends on mansportation, refrigeration, pasteurisation and other preservation processes.