Kumar, S. Mohana <br/><br/>
Milk production sector in India: Analysis of trend and pattern  

 - Productivity   
 - 61(2), Jul-Sep, 2020: p.236-249 
<br/><br/>  India is the largest producer of milk in the world and one of the potential and growing markets for milk and milk products in the world. The demand for milk products has substantially increased with the rise in per capita income over the years. However, India's share in world trade of dairy products is not commensurate with her size of milk production and domestic market. The low productivity of milch animals--measured in terms of milk produced per day per animal in India--is one of the major constraints in the expansion and diversification of trade of dairy products in the international market. It has a bearing on the international competitiveness of the dairy sector too, as the quantity and value of dairy products imported have been on the rise. It is argued in the paper that the competiveness of the dairy farmers in India would deteriorate unless the domestic market is protected from external competition and the production is reorganized from its current status of family labour-based small farms for subsistence into a commercialized farm with advanced technology in production, distribution and value addition.- Reproduced