Dairy sector hopes to attract Rs 60,000 cr, create 10 mn jobs over 5 years

FM had announced a target of doubling the annual milk processing capacity to 106 MT, from the existing 53 MT in five years

The country’s dairy sector hopes to see up to Rs 60,000 crore of new investment and creation of 10 million jobs in five years, in the wake of the Union Budget proposals.

The finance minister had announced a target of doubling the annual milk processing capacity to 106 million tonnes, from the existing 53 million tonnes (or from 140 million litres a day to 300 million) in five years.

“To process this massive capacity, the industry requires between Rs 20 and 40 crore investment for every 100,000 litres of processing. Thus, the sector would attract a fresh investment of at least Rs