With milk production in Odisha remaining substantially lesser than the per head milk requirement, the State Government has resolved to double the production in the next five years to match the demand.
Milk production in the state has registered almost threefold during the last two decades from 8.75 lakh metric tons in the year 2000 to over 23.73 1akh metric tons in 2021, the animal resources development minister Arun Kumar Sahoo claimed on Wednesday.
According to a government spokesman, milk production has gone up from 277.697 lakh metric tonnes in 2016-17 to 318.630 lakh metric tonnes in 2019-20 in UP.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in 2001, selected June 1 to mark World Milk Day.
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