From the archive record
Naresh Kumar has been running a dairy business for years and he has received good help from the government. He is happy that all is going well in the dairying sector. Milk industry dairy hands take out large canisters of milk from the dairy farm and load them onto a truck that heads out to the milk processing factory. In 2012, the UPA government had approved the National Dairy Plan Phase-I for a period of six years from 2011-12 to 2016-17 as a Central Sector Scheme. This plan was launched to cover 14 major milk producing States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal which account for over 90 per cent of the country’s milk production, having 87 per cent of breedable c