Dairy farms employ tech to ramp up production, offer milk that's pure

Happy Milk is one among the many dairy farms that are employing state-of-the-art technologies to produce organic milk in a cost-efficient way

Number 0101 starts her day early — at 3am, to be precise. Soft flute music plays in the background to keep her relaxed and a Fitbit type of wearable device tracks her health in real-time. If it detects any variations in her health parameters, an alert is sent to a doctor via a mobile app and a check-up follows.

Number 0101 is one of 400 cows at Happy Milk, a dairy farm start-up which is betting heavily on technology to automate its operations. Spread across 30 acres of land in the industrial city of Tumkur, about 150 km from Bengaluru, the