COMMERCIAL DAIRY FARMING - SUCCESS AND FAILURES LESSONS FOR SCALING UP
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Date
2014-11
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TANUVAS
Abstract
India is the largest producer of milk, producing more than 120 million tons of
milk per annum. Dairying is a centuries-old tradition for millions of Indian rural
households and domesticated animals are integral part of the farming systems. Milk
contributes more to the national economy than any other farm commodity. In the
context of poverty and malnutrition, milk has a special role to play for its many
nutritional advantages as well as providing supplementary income to some 70 million
farmers in over 500,000 remote villages (Dairy India, 2007). More importantly, the
farmers earn an average 27.3 percent of their income from dairying, with as high as 53
percent for landless and as low as 19 percent for the large farmers.
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TNV_WS_SA_E_Nov2014(53-56)
Keywords
Veterinary Science, Animal Husbandry Extension