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Story: Waikato region

Indian dairy farmers

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Indian dairy farmers

From the 1930s Sikhs from the Punjab region of India took up dairy farming in Waikato. Descendants of one of these families are shown milking their cows in 1993.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – European settlement and population, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27104/indian-dairy-farmers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.