India, March 12 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
White Revolution 2.0 has been launched by Ministry of Cooperation on 19.09.2024.
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) is implementing Rashtriya Gokul Mission for development and conservation of indigenous breeds and genetic upgradation of bovine population in order to enhance milk production and productivity of bovines. In addition to this DAHD is implementing the following Dairy Development schemes across the country to complement and supplement the efforts for creation/ strengthening of procurement and milk processing infrastructure:
National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)
Supporting Dairy Cooperatives & Farmer Producer Organisations engaged in dairy activities (SDCFPO)
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF)
These interventions help to expand the coverage of Dairy Cooperative across the country and also achieve objective of increasing cooperative sector milk procurement to 1,007 lakh kgs/day by 2028-29. As on Date, 2.35 lakh Dairy Cooperative Societies have been established/ strengthened across the country. Production of milk in 2023-24 is 239.30 Million metric tonnes, which is 63.56% over last 10 years.
The details of milk production, per capita availability and sale in Karnataka and the manner in which this can be compared with major Dairying states in the country for the year 2023-24 is tabulated below:
Hyperlink (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2110942)
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