PIB | 07 Feb, 2023
According
to production data of Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate
Statistical Database(FAOSTAT), India is the highest milk producer i.e.,
rank first position in the world contributing twenty-four percent of
global milk production in the year 2021-22.
The
milk production of India has registered fifty-one percent increase
during the last eight years i.e., during the year 2014-15 and 2021-22
and increased to twenty-two crore tonne in the year 2021-22.
This
information was given by Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in a written reply in Lok Sabha
today.