While incidents of cow vigilante violence raises its head in our country time and again with cow protectors targeting illegal cow smugglers, the Pathan family of Indapur near Pune in Western Maharashtra, has set a novel example of conservation of indigenous cows and medicinal use of their by-products.

   The highly qualified members of the Pathan family not only rear over 300 indigenous cows, but most notably they sell very little milk and major quantum of the milk produced, is used for feeding calves and also to prepare medicines to cure patients by naturopathy.

   Majid Khan Pathan, has set up “Rachna Khillar Farm” on a sprawling 40-acre ancestral land at Loni-Deokar on the Pune-Solapur road, owned by his father Rajjak Pathan, who had been a government contractor, having 45 years of experience in construction of canals and dams. His sons—Majid Khan is B.E. Civil, while his brother Juber Pathan is an MBA. Both....