Some amazing milky facts

India is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of dairy. Milk production totals 140bn litres a year (UK farmers delivered 14.4bn litres in 2014-15) and the country is self-sufficient in dairy, with demand growing 4.5% year on year.

Of that 140bn litres, about 50bn litres are kept by the farmers for their own consumption.

Did you know that adding a pinch of salt to your quart or gallon of milk makes it stay fresh longer.

A cow produces an average of 6.3 gallons of milk daily and 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

Cows eat about 100 pounds of food every day and drink 50 gallons of water.

The average American consumes almost 25 gallons of milk a year.

The greatest amount of milk produced in one year was 59,298 pounds by a Holstein cow named Robthom Sue Paddy.

Milk production costs in india are almost competitive with the likes of Australia and New Zealand, and lower than in the EU.

India has 300 million bovines. One-third are buffalo, which provide 55% of the milk.

Home delivery of milk (i.e. the milkman) started in 1942 as a war conservation measure.
More than 1,000 new dairy products are introduced each year.

Source – http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/11-amazing-facts-dairy-farming-india.htm

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