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India’s 75 million dairy farms now produce more milk than all of the European Union

Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

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India’s milk production continues to grow, to the point where it now tops the milk output of all the European Union countries combined.

Milk production in India was up by a little more than 4% over the past 12 months, according to a recent survey by the country’s finance ministry. India has actually been the world’s top milk-producing country since 1997, but this is the first time that it has beat out the entire EU. On a country basis, the US produces the second-most milk, and China comes in third. As Quartz’s Lily Kuo reported last week, China is also the world’s largest importer of dairy, though its per-capita milk consumption is lower than average.

India has 75 million dairy farms, more than anywhere else in the world. The country with the next-highest number of dairy farms is Pakistan, with 14 million. (In both of these countries, the vast majority of dairy farms have fewer than 10 cows, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.)

“India is expected to outpace the European Union and will become the largest milk producer in the world,” predicted the 2014 Agricultural Outlook.OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2014

It’s worth noting that the majority of Indian milk comes from buffaloes, not cows (the US is still the number one cow-milk-producing country in the world)

Source: Quatrz

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