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Part IV :
Milk Production
Over the two decades, ending in 2014-15, milk production in Odisha has increased from 5.8 lakh
metric tonnes (LMT) in 1994-95 to 19.0 LMT exhibiting a CAGR of 6.4 per cent. The increase is amidst
decline in the number of in-milk bovine and can solely be attributed to milk yield which is rising at
CAGR of 6.7 per cent. The growth in yield of in-milk dairy animals is phenomenal. Milk production in
the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Jajapur, Debagarh, Subarnapur and Baleshwar is rapidly growing
at a CAGR of 10 per cent or higher. However, six districts of Cuttack, Puri, Ganjam, Jagatsinghapur,
Baleshwar and Jajapur remain major milk sheds accounting for 40 per cent of States milk production.
Specie-wise, the milk production in Odisha is cattle based and the share of buffalo milk is merely
15per cent in total production.
Regarding utilisation, the dairy farmers in the State retain only 25 per cent of the milk at household
level, sell about 60 per cent as fluid milk and convert only 18 per cent of the milk into value added
dairy products.