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The White Revolution in India: The end or a new beginning?

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Title The White Revolution in India: The end or a new beginning?
 
Creator Deka, Ram Pratim
Lindahl, Johanna F.
Randolph, Thomas F.
Grace, Delia
 
Subject dairies
 
Description The milk revolution, popularly known as White Revolution, started in India in 1970 with a governmentsponsored programme - Operation Flood. This brought significant improvement to smallholder dairy systems by promoting cross-breeding, improving access to feed, veterinary services, markets, milk processing and preservation infrastructure. By 2013, India was the world’s largest milk producing country with total production of 132 megatonnes up from 17 in 1951. However, the cooperative system, the main vehicle for dairy development, was not successful everywhere especially, in regions where dairying had less potential to scale-up, leaving traditional milk production, with 80% of the market share, behind. Although cross-breeding became popular, average milk productivity per animal is still far below the global average and the traditional sector lacks awareness, capacity, incentives and resources.
Simultaneously, urban and peri-urban dairying is developing rapidly, but accompanied by health and
environmental experiments, Overall, we need systematic, location specific, holistic approaches to
address the constraints. We present initial findings on promising approaches from research in Assam,
Bihar and urban and peri-urban dairying. These suggest a ‘third way’ of dairy development driven by
demand and value chain evolution that can complement the approaches implemented by co-operatives
and more recently by large private sector investment.
 
Date 2015-09
2016-02-11T20:19:23Z
2016-02-11T20:19:23Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Deka, R., Lindahl, J., Randolph, T. and Grace, D. 2015. The White Revolution in India: The end or a new beginning? Poster prepared for the Agri4D 2015 conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 23-24 September 2015. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/71012
https://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/white-revolution-in-india
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Livestock Research Institute