New Delhi: Hardly anyone chooses to live a simple life leaving behind their luxurious lifestyle to fulfill their passion. But here the IIT graduate left his lucrative position at Intel in the US to start a dairy in Hyderabad, India. His efforts have paid off today as the dairy farm is now a 44 crore revenue firm.
Here we have a glimpse of how an Intel employee who left US and returned to India developed Sid Dairy Farm which has a turnover of 44 Crores and rose to the status of a Dairy Entrepreneur.
Kishore Indukuri: Background
Kishore grew up in a middle-class family in Hyderabad. His mother’s name is Lakshmi and father’s name is Narasimha Raju. His father spent 25 years as an engineer at Mahindra & Mahindra. His younger brother is a software engineer, while his mother was a homemaker.
Kishore Indukuri: Education
Kishore Indukuri graduated from Little Flower Junior College with a Class 12 Diploma after completing Class 10 at Nalanda Vidyalaya High School. IIT Kharagpur is the place from where he obtained his BSc degree in Chemistry.
Karnataka is the place where Kishore Indukuri was born. He obtained his IIT Kharagpur degree. He traveled to the University of Massachusetts, USA to continue his studies. Later, he obtained his doctorate in polymer science from the same university, where he also completed his post-graduate engineering studies at the University of Massachusetts.
Kishore Indukuri: Professional Career
Kishore began working for Intel Corporation, a US-based technology business in Chandler, Arizona, as a senior quality and reliability engineer after receiving his PhD. He was given permission by Intel to travel to South Korea, Japan and other countries in Europe.
Before deciding to move back to India, Kishore Indukuri was employed as a Senior Processing Engineer at Intel Corporation. In Chandler, Kishore bought a house close to the Intel office. Life in America can be very comfortable.
But there was something missing in his life. Kishore was looking for a strong kick.
Kishore wanted to go back to India to work as he was dissatisfied with his well-paying job there. He spent six years working for Intel before deciding to return to India from the United States.
Kishore Indukuri: The Beginning of Entrepreneurship
Ultimately, IIT graduate Kishor Indukuri, who also holds master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Massachusetts, left his well-paying, stable and lucrative career at Intel in the US to come back to India.
After coming back to Hyderabad, Kishore tried his hand at as many different enterprises as he could. He helped students prepare for GRE and TOEFL. He also planted vegetables. Over the course of two years, he invested around Rs 1 crore in various firms.
They soon realized that there were few options for clean and safe milk. His dairy started in 2012 with an investment of only 20 cows. He stopped running his other businesses and devoted himself to this dairy farm.
Kishore Indukuri initially offered milk for sale in the wholesale sector. Since the production cost was about 30 cents per litre, he lost money by selling at 15 cents per litre.
He started milking the cows personally and then transporting them to the consumers, which was a difficult task.
Kishore went to Indukuri Housing Society and community centers to interact with people. The milk was then given a longer shelf life by installing a freeze and store system.
They spread leaflets in their area about the benefits of milk without water, antibiotics, preservatives or hormones. He instructed the customers to take a sample of the milk before placing the order. His wife Hima designed the pamphlets. He named the farm Sidd Dairy Farm after his son Siddharth.
As of 2018, the dairy farm in Indukuri has outpaced all other milk suppliers in Hyderabad. His dairy farm procures milk from 1500 farmers and distributes over 25,000 liters of milk to around 6,000 customers in and around Hyderabad.
Sid Dairy Farm in Shahbad, which has grown into a 44 crore firm, has more than 100 cows. The dairy farm now employs 120 people, generates 40 crores in revenue annually, and has expanded its activities.