Livestock Marketing and Supply Chain Management of Livestock Products

摘要

In the last five decades, India's livestock sector has not only grown but has also experienced a gradual structural transformation. From a subsistence economic activity in the 1960s and 1970s, the animal husbandry with a share of about 27 per cent inthe agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) has now emerged as the largest agricultural activity in rural India. The size of livestock sector, in value terms, is now 1.25 times the size of foodgrain sector. There was a remarkable increase in milk production from around 20 million tons in the 1960s to 133 million tons in 2012-13, raising the overall growth of livestock sector to 4.5 percent during 2001-2014 from less than 2 percent during 1961-1980.Likewise, the poultry production also grew tremendously.