PM in Gujarat: India top milk producer, turnover higher than that of wheat, rice India News


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DEODAR (BANASKANTHA): India is the “world’s largest producer of milk”: it produces milk worth Rs 8.5 lakh crore annually, something that many people, “including big economists, fail to pay attention to”, PM Narendra Modi told a large gathering at Deodar taluka, in Banaskantha district, on Tuesday. According to the FAO, India is the world's largest milk producer, with 22% of global production, followed by the US, China, Pakistan and Brazil. The PM was speaking after inaugurating a new dairy complex and a potato processing plant of the Banaskantha District Milk Producers Union Ltd, popularly known as Banas Dairy . He...