Union Government will facilitate doubling of milk processing capacity from over 53 million tonne to 108 million tonne by 2025.

Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying said, the government is continuously working towards increasing milk productivity through genetic improvement and reduction of input cost.

In India, milk production is growing by 6.4 per cent during the last five years and has increased from over 146 million tonne in 2014-15 to over 187 million Tonne in 2018-19. The Ministry said, about 54 per cent of milk produced is marketable surplus and remaining 46 per cent is retained in villages for local consumption.

Out of the marketable surplus available with farmers, only 36 per cent is handled by cooperative and private sector. It said, there is a need to bring the remaining 64 per cent surplus milk under the organized fold. A special programme has also been launched recently for improvement of milk quality by providing required testing facilities at village and dairy plant level for safe human consumption.