Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

India- The world's largest producer of milk Did you know that India is the world's largest producer of milk, contributing about 19% of the world's total milk production with over 187 million metric tonnes every year? India's milk production, an agricultural product also called dairy milk, during the period 1950-51 was a measly 17 million tonnes which stands now at 187 million metric tonnes in 2019-20, mainly on account of the "Operation Flood" programme launched by the Government of India in 1970. India's milk output surpasses that of all the European Union countries combined, is followed by the US, China, Pakistan and Brazil. This is a unique record among the major milk producers as more than half of India's production is derived from water buffalo, rather than cattle. All this mass production is credited to its masses and this process has been rightly termed as the White Revolution. It is expected the production trend would reach a peak ...