Some Outtakes from the write up by Anindya Upadhyay, Pratik Parija, Kanika Sood and P R Sanjai in Bloomberg.com
Top 5 Dairy producers in the world ( metric tons) 1. India 167.0 M 2. European Union 156.8 M 3. USA 99.5 M 4. China 38.7 M 5. Russia 30.8 M Talking about the "prohibitions on the slaughter of cattle" in many Indian States: "It’s not just slaughterhouses and leather tanneries that are affected. Deprived of the option of turning their spent milkers into hamburgers, the farmers who make up India’s 5.3 trillion rupee dairy industry have little incentive to expand their herds, which threatens government plans to expand the milk supply." " The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes. The beasts already produce more than half of India’s milk and are preferred by some farmers, in part because they tolerate heat better. Still, their output of 5.2 kilograms of milk a day is about a quarter less than what the country’s Holstein-cross cows average, and it’s significantly less than the 28 kilograms yielded by American cows."The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes. The beasts already produce more than half of India’s milk and are preferred by some farmers, in part because they tolerate heat better. Still, their output of 5.2 kilograms of milk a day is about a quarter less than what the country’s Holstein-cross cows average, and it’s significantly less than the 28 kilograms yielded by American cows." Read more about it here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-23/india-s-sacred-cow-now-threatens-an-83-billion-dairy-industry
