India will produce one-third of world’s milk by 2035, says dairy development board chief

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman Meenesh C. Shah has said that India volition nutrient one-third of the world’s beverage request by 2035.

Opening the valedictory ceremonial of the Southern Dairy and Food Conclave (SDFC 2026) successful Kozhikode connected Saturday (January 10, 2026), helium said India was the largest beverage shaper astatine present, producing 247.87 cardinal metric tonnes per year. “The dairy assemblage contributes to 4.5% of the country’s GDP. At slightest 85% of the dairy farmers are small-scale farmers, and 35-40% of them are women. The improvement of the dairy assemblage is captious to ensuring the betterment of the agrarian system and women empowerment,” helium added.

The NDDB aims to guarantee a beardown marketplace and amended remuneration for dairy farmers. There are respective villages successful India struggling to find a bully marketplace for their dairy products. The NDDB plans to acceptable up beverage cooperative societies successful 75,000 villages wrong a twelvemonth arsenic a solution to the situation, Mr. Shah added.

“Enabling farmers to attain amended productivity and little expenses and ensuring security extortion for cattle astatine little premiums are cardinal to improving beverage productivity. The NDDB is trying to pull the caller procreation into the dairy sector,” helium added.