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Indian Dairy Industry facing the Leadership Challenge “National Dairy Plan needs critical review” By: Vijay Sardana Leading Agribusiness and Bio-economy Expert Blog: “Vijay Sardana Online” Population of India in 2020-21 will be about 1.326 billion. According to RDA -2010 for moderately active person, the milk requirement is 300 ml per day. At the rate of 300 ml per day per person, India needs about 145 million tons of milk per year. Let us add another 10% i.e. 15 million tons for exports and other applications. The total demand should not exceed about 160 million tons. National Dairy Plan is proposing 200 million tons milk production: 1.     What is the calculation behind these numbers? 2.     How much feed and fodder is required to produce the 200 million tons of milk? 3.     Do we have land and water to produce this excess quantity of milk? 4.     What will be the environmental impact of excess production? 5.     What will be the impact of excess produ

Imported Edible oils, Imported Pulses and now Imported Maize  Is India outsourcing her food security and at what cost? Government of India has allowed import of maize, to meet the growing demand of maize and shrinking supply base to meet the round the year demand from poultry and starch industry. Till last week government and Niti Aayog was claiming India is food secure and we have enough food to meet the demand of people and livestock of this country. Today, India is forced to allow import of corn to control maize prices. Look at the average maize prices in last one year in India: These wide fluctuation clearly indicates that demand supply mismatch exist. Sharp rise and fall of prices  indicates  that  trade is not sure how much supplies India will have this year. This also indicate unreliable data management in the country. On the other hand global prices are stable. This is important for country like India to understand that if maize prices are

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