Product of Satyagraha land West Champaran, it’s made by tribal women using healthy and river-friendly ingredients, including goat milk
Mahatma Gandhi vouched for goat milk, now villagers in Bihar’s West Champaran district, where he started his first satyagraha 107 years ago, are seeing a lot more of him on grey, yellow and lavender currency notes, thanks to their goats.
Families here have been investing in goats because goat milk, for one, sells for up to Rs 200 a litre. There’s the pricey meat of billy goats too. But the real money-spinner these days is goat milk soap that sells for Rs 45 apiece. It’s spawned a cottage industry for women of the Tharu tribe in the district’s Bagaha-2 block, freeing them from the drudgery of collecting forest produce.
Families here have been investing in goats because goat milk, for one, sells for up to Rs 200 a litre. There’s the pricey meat of billy goats too. But the real money-spinner these days is goat milk soap that sells for Rs 45 apiece. It’s spawned a cottage industry for women of the Tharu tribe in the district’s Bagaha-2 block, freeing them from the drudgery of collecting forest produce.