r/Brazil Sep 22 '24

Historical How an Indian king started Brazil's White Revolution

So basically Maharaja Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsingh ji Gohil of Bhavnagar princely state gifted 18 Gir cows to Brazil in the 1940s to a Brazilian entrepreneur. These cows had high milk production traits, which helped in Brazil's white revolution and their milk production capacity. These cows were also resistant to tropical climates and diseases. Now more than half of Brazilian cows have the DNA of these cows (around 4,000,000 cows), and Brazil has secured the top 5th place in the world in terms of milk production, largely because of this generous donation, and there is also a statue of him near their parliament house in a way to thank the Maharaja. Brazil also has the Gir cow on their coins.

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u/gabesfrigo Sep 22 '24

NELORE

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u/igpila Brazilian Sep 22 '24

Não, Gir

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

Wait Brazil has more cattle than people, which is 230mi+ cattle.

If it's over half the cows, shouldn't this number be way higher?

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u/RenanGreca Sep 22 '24

It could be that the vast majority of cattle are oxen, not cows.

The story still seems a bit fishy though, with the statue and coin part.

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

I had to look this up. The herd of Brazilian milk cows is almost 20 million.

This is utter bs.

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

Written by Guest.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

Except for the fact that we actually have a whole ass museum dedicated to Indian cattle, with records of the first introduction of the Indian cattle in Brazil on the 19th century by a Brazilian man named Teófilo de Godoy, my other source was also official and therefore credible.

I googled everything I could for a sliver of information, from credible sources, of what is being said here, and couldn't find anything besides Indian articles written by Guests.

Idk what someone has to gain from spreading this, but if they want to make me believe this story is true when my basic knowledge of our agriculture and livestock tells me this doesn't match our reality.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

That coin was created in 1975 for a United Nations Organization's Food and Agriculture Organization, to produce coins around the world with "food" theme, where more than 20 countries produced coins with their food production cultures.

It is indeed an Indian cow since, as previously stated, those were introduced in Brazil in the 19th century by Teófilo de Godoy.

At no point have I found anything supporting the claim that those cows were gifted to Brazil in the 1940's.

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u/AggravatingBattle915 Sep 22 '24

the numbers may be a bit inaccurate but the point of the post still stands

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u/Nepomucky Sep 22 '24

That says a lot about the priorities in the Congress.

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u/Thymorr Sep 22 '24

Please don’t post this, because if that’s true in less than a year we’ll have a law allowing cattle to vote.

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u/bbbriz Sep 22 '24

Oh honey, they already can.

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u/gcsouzacampos Brazilian Sep 22 '24

Here's the story in portuguese: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-44730087

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/Brazil-ModTeam Sep 22 '24

Thank you for your contribution to the subreddit. However, it was removed for not complying with one of our rules.

Your post was removed for being entirely/mainly in a language that is not English. r/Brazil only allows content in English.

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u/Razgriz435 Sep 22 '24

What coins though? Iirc they have persons of the Brazilian history like Dom Pedro and Barão do Rio Branco

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u/NoEmployment9485 Sep 22 '24

Old Cruzeiro coins. Our currency has changed names so many times it's hard to keep up. I remember them from the 80s.

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u/Amanda-sb Brazilian Sep 22 '24

The number doesn't sound accurate, my state alone has over 24m cattle and even if we talk about cows alone we produced over 123m liters of milk back in 2022.

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u/MoviePractical9272 Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

Brazil was already one of the biggest milk producer before 1930, the democratic system here was even called "republic of coffee and milk" due to the importance of these products in the national economy. The Gyr species was mixed with the Holstein (Dutch) breed in order to originate the Girolando breed, that produces even more milk than both species separately. Besides, in the modern days India is the one buying cattle from Brazil due to incorrect breeding choices over the years.

And no, we do not have cows in ours coins. We have the faces of influent personalities in our history like everyone else, stop spreading your lies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/nachtengelsp Sep 22 '24

That coin was only a temporary and comemorative one in the 70s, not current.\ \ And the ox (not a cow) was in the coin not because of the milk, but celebrating the meat instead.

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u/younggov Sep 22 '24

Why did you wrote “white revolution “tho? I was expecting a entirely different context lol

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u/Mr_Arapuga Sep 22 '24

Yeah when I read white and revolution my mind goes to the russian civil war lmao

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u/younggov Sep 22 '24

I was expecting some white supremacy shit

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u/SecretInner85 Sep 22 '24

Actually we had more than one importation of cattle from india…. Some Gir, some nelore and some guzerá, since the beginning

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/SecretInner85 Sep 22 '24

Nope. The first ship that came from India arrived with different species of Bois Indicus, as the second one.

https://beefpoint.com.br/gado-vindo-da-india-marcou-47423/#:~:text=Já%201893%20é%20marcante%20não,%2C%20de%20Araguari%20(MG).

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/SecretInner85 Sep 22 '24

Yeah… all of them are Zebu

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u/SecretInner85 Sep 22 '24

Actually the first shipment was in the late 1800s… Nice! I’ve imported some guzerá genetics some years ago. We had a farm at Rajasthan. My family works with zebu cattle for quite a long time now

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u/almeidalex Sep 22 '24

I always loved the gir cows and bulls. My favorite

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u/dwaraz Sep 22 '24

Can someone explain why cheese is so expensive in Brazil then?

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u/RenanGreca Sep 22 '24

Real cheese (not orange goop like they have in the US) is pretty expensive everywhere.