At 176.35 mn tonnes, milk production up 6.6% in 2017-18: MoS Agriculture
India is the largest milk producer in the world Current Affairs News : India's milk production is estimated to have increased by 6.6 per cent to 176.35 million tonnes during the last financial year. "Milk production in the country is 165.4 million tonnes during 2016-17 and 176.35 million tonnes (provisional) during 2017-18," Minister of State for Agriculture Krishna Raj has said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. She also informed that the projected milk production by 2021-22 is 254.5 million tonnes as per the vision 2022 document. India is the largest milk producer in the world. To achieve this target, the minister said that the department has been implementing many dairy development schemes to supplement the efforts of the state governments to create necessary infrastructure across the country. These schemes are -- Rashtriya Gokul Mission, National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD), National Dairy Plan Phase I, Dairy Entrepreneurship De