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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Dairy dreams: A not-so-white vision -Harish Damodaran

Dairy dreams: A not-so-white vision -Harish Damodaran

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published Published on Mar 16, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 16, 2018
-The Indian Express

The government’s projections of milk production almost doubling and incomes of farmers more than trebling by 2023-24 seem rather rosy.

It took over one-and-a-half decades for India’s milk production to roughly double from 80.6 million tonnes (mt) in 2000-01 to 163.7 mt in 2016-17. But if the Narendra Modi government’s National Action Plan for Dairy Development: Vision-2022 is to be believed, it’s possible not only to achieve the next near-doubling to 300 mt by 2023-24, but also more than treble the average net income of milk producers from Rs 516 to Rs 1,697 per month.

How is this going to be done, given that achieving 300-mt output in 2023-24 would require an annual growth of 9.04 per cent, or twice the 4.53 per cent average rate recorded between 2000-01 and 2016-17? Well, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, which has prepared the Action Plan, projects an increase in the country’s in-milk cattle and buffalo population from 88.35 million in 2015-16 to 108.31 million in 2021-22 and 116.38 million in 2023-24. That, along with average daily milk yield per animal rising from 4.65 kg to 6.44 kg and 7.06 kg, would result in output climbing from 155.5 mt in 2015-16 (it presumably also includes production from goats) to 254.5 mt in 2021-22 and 300 mt in 2023-24.

As for incomes, the assumption is that the average monthly milk sale by farmers will go up from the existing 80.1 litres (@2.67 litres per day) to 151.37 litres (5.05/day) in 2021-22 and 178.40 litres (5.95/day) in 2023-24. Also, it is expected that the average procurement price per litre paid by dairies for buffalo and cow milk would increase from the current Rs 32.19 to Rs 43.14 in 2021-22 and Rs 47.56 in 2023-24, with corresponding retail prices of Rs 46, Rs 61.64 and Rs 67.96 per litre, respectively.

Taking the farmer’s margin at 20 per cent of the procurement price, the average milk producer’s net monthly income would grow from Rs 516 now to Rs 1,306 in 2021-22 and Rs 1,697 by 2023-24. In other words, not a mere doubling but a more-than-trebling of incomes over seven years!

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The Indian Express, 15 March, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/dairy-dreams-a-not-so-white-vision-milk-production-farmers-income-5098230/


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