Dairy Management in India: A Study in Andhra Pradesh

Despite its vast cattle wealth India’s place is at the rock-bottom with regard to the yield and per capita consumption of dairy products. The growing population and overpopulated cities and towns in the post-independence period have attracted wide notice. This has necessitated the involvement of the government to bring dairying in public sector with a view to gater to the ever-growing needs of urban and rural people. Dairy farming , an important subsidiary to agriculture, has been playing a vital role in India’s rural economy. For the micro-level study of Dairy Units, conducted in this volume, the author has selected Warangal, a prominent Telangana district of Andhra Pradesh. It is among the oldest Dairies established in the major cities of Telangana after Hyderabad. In this study, the author fulfils the gap in the field of managerial aspects of dairying and makes interesting observations like over-staffing, the un-economic strength of man power, low procurement, high over-head charges in spite of increase in milk sales. It further alms at democratization of dairy industry by forming producers cooperative price to rural producer and supplying quality milk at reasonable price to the consumer. Such a significant of the Dairy problems is bound to prove as a great help and satisfaction to all those concerned with the field of dairying.