Every day, 30-year-old Yogesh Gowda wakes up around 5.30 a.m, but not to squeeze in a workout. Instead, he feeds the 40-odd sheep that he is rearing in a portion of his house in Bengaluru.
A software engineer working in an IT firm in Bengaluru, Mr. Gowda took started ‘Hasu Mane’ in his house at Gowdanapalya, near Uttarahalli, around seven years ago. Starting with eight cows, he used to supply around 100 litres of milk to the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) every day.
“I started rearing sheep around three years ago. During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, my mother got infected. That’s when I sold the cows, as people kept coming to me for milk. I started concentrating on sheep rearing,” he said.
