India to promote organic buffalo products for export

Breeding organic buffaloes for meat and milk will help farmers more than double their income as hides, bones and fat are also processed. Fauzan Alawi, head of the Allanasons Ltd. Exporters Association, published an article on the prospects for breeding buffaloes in India on indianexpress.com. “The tremendous potential of livestock farming in India can be unleashed through a structured, farmer-centered approach. India is the second largest agricultural producer in the world and has 140 million hectares of cultivated area, has almost 1200 mm of average annual rainfall and as many as 15 agro-climatic zones. However, despite this wealth of resources, India's agricultural exports are unlikely to amount to $ 40 billion a year. The world's population is expected to increase by another 2 billion by 2050 compared to the current population of 6.8 billion, and therefore Indian farmers have good prospects of increasing annual supplies to more than $ 100 billion in the near future, in other ...