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Assessing The Production Potential Of Dairy Farming And Constraints In Milk Production In Tamilnadu

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Title Assessing The Production Potential Of Dairy Farming And Constraints In Milk Production In Tamilnadu
 
Creator Pandian, A. Serma Saravana
 
Contributor Selvakumar, K.N.
Thirunavukkarasu, M
Meganathan, N
Subramanian, A
 
Description Dairying in India has emerged as an important sub-sector, accounting for
nearly two-thirds of the total livestock contribution to GNP with an encouraging
growth rate of five per cent over years. Through improved breeding, feeding and
management programmes, there has been marked improvement in the country's
milk production and productivity of milch animals. The dairy industry in India has
taken a rapid stride during the past three decades, which were absurd earlier.
India, the current leader in the dairy world ranks first in milk production
with a production level of 90.7 million tonnes of milk per year. The production of
milk has gone up more than five fold since independence, resulting in near
doubling of per capita availability of milk. The per capita availability of milk
increased from 124 grams per day in 1950-51 to 232 grams per day in 2004-05
(Economic Survey, 2005-06). The value of output of milk and its products is
approximately 50000 crore rupees and that of dairy industry as a whole is about
1,05,000 crore rupees. In 2004-05 the livestock subsector accounted for about
27 per cent of the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP), which has
increased gradually from 14 per cent in 1980-81.
India possesses one of the largest livestock populations in the world. In
2003, the country had 185 million cattle, 98 million buffaloes, 124 million goats,
61 million sheep, 13.5 million pigs and 489 million poultry. Fifty seven per cent of
world’s buffaloes and 16 per cent of the world’s cattle are found in India. India
ranks first in respect of cattle and buffalo population.
Dairy development in India has been acclaimed world over as one of
modern India’s most accomplished developmental programme. The states like
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamilnadu are producing surplus milk.
Productivity
performance of dairy industry across the country has registered an annual growth
of 17.14 per cent for the country as a whole. As a result of Operation Flood,presently, more than 1.10 lakh village-level co-operative societies, functioning
with about 13 million producer members, are procuring more than 200 lakh kgs of
milk per day. These cooperatives form a part of the National Milk-Grid, which
links the milk producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and
cities (Economic Survey, 2005-06). The Grid not only bridges the gaps between
the seasonal and regional variation in the availability of milk, but also ensures a
remunerative price to the producers and a reasonable price and quality for milk
and milk products to the consumers.
 
Date 2016-05-27T14:37:45Z
2016-05-27T14:37:45Z
2006
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66390
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University