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Milk output rises 19%, dairy farmers' income up 24% in 2014-17

The per capita milk availability has also increased to 351 gram in 2016-17

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
India's milk production rose by 19 per cent in the last three years to touch 163.6 million tonnes, leading to a significant increase in dairy farmers' income, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today.

Addressing a function on the National Milk Day, he said the government has launched many programmes in the last three years to raise dairy sector's productivity.

The minister announced that a National Action Plan Vision-2022 would be unveiled that would focus on creation of infrastructure for handling of increased milk production and help achieve the target to double farmers' income by 2022.

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