Global warming could affect milk production - hence, National Gokul Mission to be set up

Global warming could have a bad effect on production of milk and could result in adversely impacting the overall output in the coming years. Hence, National Gokul Mission has planned to launch suitable programs because dairy business provides livelihood to 60 million rural households in India which continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 23 May 2016.

As estimated by Indian dairy scientists, the climate change will lead to decline in milk production by over 3 million tonnes (MT) per year by 2020. Projections of the growing demand for milk in the country, peg the requirement at 200 MT by 2021-22. No doubt, milk production has been steadily increasing and in 2015-16 it has recorded an output of 160 MT. However, the impact of rising temperatures, especially on cross-bred cows, will make the task of meeting domestic demand difficult and could eventually lead to a decline in per capita consumption.
The world's major producers, including the US, Brazil and Australia, are importing Indian milch animals to develop heat-resistant species - and, the government of India is focusing on indigenous breeds by introducing various schemes through its ambitious National Gokul Mission programs. This would include setting up 'Gokul Gram' (integrated indigenous cattle centres). Its task would be to scientifically help local farmers conserve 'desi' breeds of cows and buffaloes.
The central government has already approved setting up 14 Gokul Grams in different states under the National Gokul Mission. These setups will be self-sustaining centres and generate resources from the sale of milk, organic manure, vermi-compost and urine distillates. Moreover, they will also produce electricity from bio-gas for in-house consumption and sale of animal products.
Each Gokul Gram will maintain milch and unproductive animals in the ratio of 60:40 and will have the capacity to maintain about 1,000 animals. The government has also planned to set up two national Kamdhenu breeding centres and one of these would be in Andhra Pradesh and the other in Madhya Pradesh.


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