NEW DELHI, Feb. 7 -- The Central government is formulating plans for the creation of dairy infrastructure in the country, besides implementing the ongoing schemes for dairy development, Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Wednesday.
"The National Action Plan (NAP) for dairy development envisages increasing milk production to 254.5 million metric tonne (MMT) by 2021-22 requiring an annual growth rate of 8.56 per cent, which will lead to increase in per capita availability of milk to 515 grams per day by 2021-22 addressing the nutritional requirement of the growing population," he said.
Singh, who was speaking on 'Milk Processing Infrastructure in Dairy Cooperative Sector' at the Inter-Session Meeting o...