ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
- According to the estimates of the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the value of output from livestock sector at current prices was about 5,137,535 crore during 2012-13 which is about 25.63% of the value of output from total agricultural, fishing, and forestry sector at current price.
- India continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world.
- Milk production in the beginning of Twelfth Plan (2012-13) was 43 million tonnes with an annual growth rate of 3.54%.
- The per capita availability of milk was around 296 grams per day in 2012-13.
- The egg production in the beginning of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-13) was 69.73 billion with an annual growth rate of 4.94%.
- The per capital availability was around 57 eggs per year during 2012-13.
- The poultry meat production is estimated to be 2.68 million tonnes.
- Wool production in the beginning of Twelfth Plan (2012-13) was 46.05 million kgs. The Annual growth rate for production of wool was 95% in 2012-13.
- The country has vast potential for fisheries in view of our long coastline of about 8,118 kms apart from the inland water resources.
- The value of output from fisheries sector at current price was about 91,541 crore during 2012-13 which was about 4.36% of the value of agricultural and allied sector output at current price.
- India is the second largest producer of fish and the second largest producer of fresh water fish in the world.
- Fish production has increased to 40 lakh tonnes (33.21 lakh tonnes for marine and 57.19 lakh tonnes for inland fisheries) in 2012-13.
