Speaking after inaugurating the International Dairy Federation World Dairy Summit (IDF WDS) 2022 on Monday, PM Modi had said since 2014, “Our government has worked relentlessly to enhance the potential of India’s dairy sector”.
BJP (Bharatiya Janta Party) also recently claimed that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi India has become the largest producer of milk from being a milk deficit country in its early years.
A tweet from BJP’s official Twitter account states, “Under the leadership of PM @narendramodi, India is charting new heights in the Dairy Sector! From being a milk-deficit nation to becoming the largest producer of milk in the world, India has come a long way.”
Fact Check:
To investigate this claim DFRAC team ran a keyword search on this topic and found many reports on Google that state, in 1998, (i.e at the time of congress) India surpassed the US and became the largest milk producer in the world.
Financial Express report dated June 1 2017 states that “India has actually been the world’s top milk-producing country since 1997, but in the year 2014, for the first time, it beat the entire EU.”
It further states, “AMUL and Operation Flood launched in 1970, was a project of India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which was the world’s biggest dairy development program. It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world’s largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 2010-11.
Again according to a report by Amul with the headline, “How Kuriens Idea Helped India BECOMW World’s Largest Milk Producer?”
The report states, “In 1970 worlds Operation Flood NDDB’s revolutionary project and the world’s biggest agriculture Dairy development project was launched. It turned India from a deficient mill-producing country to the world’s largest Milk producing country.
The report further states, “It was all because of kurien’s efforts of expanding the “Anand Pattern of Milk production” regionally.”
Conclusion:
India became the largest milk producer in the world in 1998. So the claims made by BJP are false.
Claim Review: India became the largest producer of milk in the world under PM Modi
Claimed by: BJP
Fact Check: misleading.
