On Tuesday, the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala, informed Lok Sabha that India has become the highest milk producer in the world, contributing 24% of the global milk manufacture in the year 2021-22.

He further said that milk production in India has enumerated a 51% upsurge in the last eight years during the year 2014-15 and 2021-22 and augmented to Rs 22 crore tons in the year 2021-22.

The Union Minister also said that the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying tracks various schemes to subsidy farmer members, counting economically weaker farmers in the dairy sector.

Supplementary, the National Programme for Dairy Development targets enhancing the milk quality and milk products and snowballing the share of organised procurement, handling, value addition, and marketing.

NPDD was propelled in February 2014 by an amalgamation of three prevailing schemes- Strengthening Infrastructure for Quality and Clean Milk Production, Intensive Dairy Development Programme, and Assistance to Cooperatives.

Due to the application of these schemes by the division, milk production in the country has amplified from 146.31 Million Tons in 2014-15 to 221.1, the minister appealed.

“Million Tonnes in 2021-22, i.e. by 6.38% per annum throughout the last eight years. The value of the milk harvest is more than Rs 9.32 lakh crore during 2021-22, which is more sophisticated than the agricultural products and even more than the collective value of paddy and wheat. Egg production in the country has amplified from 78.48 billion in 2014-15 to 129.53 billion in 2021-22. Egg manufacture in the country is increasing at 8% per annum.