India is the top producer of milk in the world and has set a goal of manufacturing 300 million metric tons (MMT) of milk in the subsequent 5 years from the current 239 MMT, Union Minister of Animal Husbandry and Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh stated in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (March 25, 2025).
Mr. Singh additionally stated that ever since the Modi authorities has launched the Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) in 2014, the milk manufacturing in the nation has elevated by 63.5 per cent and the authorities is hopeful of additional rising it by 15 per cent in subsequent three years.
“India is now the top milk producing country in the world. We have now set a target of producing 300 MMT of milk in next five years from the present 239 MMT,” he stated.
Rashtriya Gokul Mission
The Minister stated about 10 crore folks in the nation are engaged in milk manufacturing of which 75 per cent are girls. He stated the per particular person consumption of milk in India is 471 gram.
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is implementing Rashtriya Gokul Mission. It mains goal is improvement and conservation of indigenous breeds, genetic upgradation of bovine inhabitants and enhancement of milk manufacturing and productiveness of bovines thereby making milk manufacturing extra remunerative to the farmers.
The scheme, launched in 2014, is sustained below revised realigned schemes of the Department from 2021-2022 to 2025-2026.
Its aims are to reinforce productiveness of bovines and rising milk manufacturing in a sustainable method utilizing advance applied sciences and to propagate use of excessive genetic benefit bulls for breeding functions.
It additionally goals to reinforce synthetic insemination protection by way of strengthening breeding community and supply of synthetic insemination companies at farmers’ doorstep.
Published – March 25, 2025 12:44 pm IST
