"Government has submitted a proposal for availing loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency for 'Dairying through Cooperatives-National Dairy Infrastructure Plan'," the agriculture ministry said in a statement.
The proposal is in line with the government's aim to double farmers' income in the next five years.
"The total outlay of the proposal is Rs 20,057 crore," the statement said, adding the proposal has been forwarded by Department of Economic Affairs to JICA.
"The fund will be routed through National Dairy Development Board for the development of dairy sector," the statement said.
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India ranks first among the world's milk producing nations since 1998 and has the largest bovine population in the world. The country's milk production has increased to about 155 million tonnes from 17 million tonnes in 1950-51.
About 54 per cent of the milk produced is surplus for marketing in the domestic market, of which only 20.5 per cent is procured/processed by the organised sector being equally shared by co-operatives and private dairy organizations.
The proposal aims to cover additional 1.28 lakh villages and 121.83 lakh additional milk producers.
It seeks to set up 1.05 lakh bulk milk coolers at village level, create 524.20 lakh kg per day capacity of milk chilling and establish milk and milk product processing infrastructure of 76.5 lakh kg per day capacity.
Besides, the programme will modify/expand old milk and milk product plants created 20-30 years ago under Operation Flood and create milk and milk products plants for value added products which will benefit 160 lakh existing farmers.