It is still very common in the towns of Tamil Nadu for teachers to chide poorly-performing students as ‘only fit to rear donkeys’. Except in the case of Babu, it was a prophetic pronouncement, showing him his life’s path
U. Babu of Vannarpet, a school dropout, has established Tamil Nadu’s first donkey farm near here, and has become a young successful entrepreneur selling a litre of donkey milk for a whopping ₹7,000 to a Bengaluru-based firm manufacturing a range of cosmetic products with it.
Though he passed 11th standard, Mr. Babu decided to put an end to his studies and entered pharma products distribution that led him to the company manufacturing 28 unisex cosmetic products with donkey’s milk. They were looking for a credible source to supply 1,000 litres of donkey milk every month, and Mr. Babu soon realised that Tamil Nadu had only less than 2,000 donkeys and each milking female could give only 350 ml a day and only for a period of 6 months.
