Lucknow: Accounting 17% of the shares in total production of India, Uttar Pradesh continues to become the largest milk-producing country in the country.
Rajasthan, with 11.5% of shares and Andhra Pradesh, with 9% stake, each in number two and three.
Milk production above rose from 277 lakh metric tons in 2016-17 to 318 lakh metric tons in 2019-20, showing an increase of 41 lakh during the period.
According to statistics issued by the state government, up has produced 1,242 lakh metric tons of milk in the past four years.
A state government spokesman said that six large companies, including Amul, had established their milk factory above the cost of Rs 172 Crore in the past four years while working is building seven others.
In addition, 15 investors have offered to organize their units in the state.
“Investment in the dairy sector also creates massive employment opportunities in country rural areas,” he said.
To promote milk production in the state, the state government has worked to save cows, in addition to establishing Greenfield Dairies in Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Bareilly, Kannauj, Gorakhya, Firozabad, Ayodhya and Moradabad.
In addition, four old milk in Jhansi, Noida, Aligarh and Prayagraj were being increased, the spokesman said.
He added that the state government had gave sanctions RS 272 Crore for the formation of a cattle protection center in all districts.
Complicated settings have been made for the protection and maintenance of a good and abandoned bovine.
The upper government also built a cattle protection center and ‘Govansh Vanya Vihar’ to increase milk production in the state.
The construction of 118 centers like that has been completed.
With 17% of the stock, Indian Top Milk Manufacturer
