It has often been said that India has recently gone through a white revolution. There has been good progress in cross breeding of cows and provision of extension as well as veterinary services. This, coupled with entry of private sector in the dairy industry, starting from captive hinterland, has resulted in sharp increase in milk production, especially from 1990-91, as can be observed from Table No. 22. In order to further increase production of this commodity, which is becoming very common even amongst poor household, especially amongst slum dwellers, labourers and migrant labourers, a number of poultry estates are planned to be set up. Tremendous progress has been made in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, which now supplies eggs to at least half of the country.
Similar progress is sought to be duplicated else where.
The annual imports were as high as 1.6 million tons in 1983-84 and touched a peak of 1.8 million tons in 198788, when the drought had badly reduced the production of oilseeds. However, in the meantime, India had launched a Technology Mission on Oilseeds in May 1986 to harness latest technology in all aspects of oil production, starting with production and going on to processing and marketing. Schemes like price support operations and market intervention were also started. The programme covers nine oilseeds. The results were quite dramatic.