Government wants you to ditch oil for ghee —And the reason isn’t just health
The Union Government is looking to promote use of ghee as a cooking medium, to replace the use of palm oil and other edible oils, and the reason is not just health. Government sources have told CNBC TV18 that use of more ghee as a cooking medium will not just save foreign exchange by saving on edible oil imports, but will also benefit India’s dairy industry by allowing it to get rid of compulsory conversion of excess milk to milk powder and butter.
With the government envisaging 700 MT milk production per year by 2047, it is targeting an increase in per capita milk availability of 444 milli-litres per Indian today to 1 litre milk per person per day by 2047.
Though India’s milk production has risen in the past decade, with the average productivity of milch animals rising from 1,648 kg per animal per year in 2013-14 to around 2,000 kg per animal per year, government sources pointed out that the production stagnated in the previous financial year due to lesser spend on animals, issues relating to fodder and the incidence of lumpy cow disease in cattle.
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