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SERI KRISHNAPPAfS SFEECH AT DllIRY AND ESALTH
OFFICERS COMFEFENCE
New D e l h f , Sravana 21, 1879
August 1 2 , 1957.
The growth o f o r a a n i s e d d a i r y i n g i n d u s t r y was of g r e a t
p r a c t i c a l importance
because of i t s b e a r i n g on t h e . s u c c e s s f u l
implementation of t h e schsrnes f o r d a i r y development i n t h e
,
second P l a n , e s t i m a t e d t o c o s t R ~ ~ 1 9 . 5 c7 r o r e s , s a i d S h r i M.V.
Krishnappa, Deputy M i n i s t e r f o r A g r i c u l t u r e i n t h e Union M i n i s t r y
of Food and PLgriculture;
h e r e today,
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S h r i K r i s h n a p p a was i n a u . p u r a t i n g a two-day Conf e r p n c e of
Dairy and H e a l t h O f f i c e r s , , w M i ch i s b e i n g p r e s i d e d o v e r by
S h r i P,N, Thapar, S e c r s t z r y , M i n i s t r y of Food and A g r i c u l t u r e
( Department of A g r i c u l t u r e ) , and a t t e n d e d by p u b l i c a n a l y s t s and
d a i r y t e c h n o l o g i s t s from S t a t e s and t h e C e n t r e ,
S h r i Krishna;3pa s a i d t h a t m i l k and m i l k p r o d u c t s ,
because of t h e i r high n u t r f t l v e v a l u e c o n s t i t u t e d t h e most
sought f o r components of an I n d i a n t s diet,
;
Milk was l i f e '
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i n l i q u i d . f o m and was r e q u i r e d f o r everyone, p a r t . ?cul,a,~'y .folcr
t h e young, t h e n u r s i n g and e x p e c t a n t m o t h e r s , t h e aged akd . t h e
sick,
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of
it i s n o t
produced t o p r o v i d e even t h e minimal n a t i o n a l r e q u i rement, w i t h
t h e . r e s u l t t h a t t h e a v a i l a b l e supply i s marketed e i t h e r a t a
p r i c e which i s beyond t h e rneans o f most s e c t i o n s of t h e . comrnunlty
of
o r a f t e r a d u l t e r .a .t i o n , t h c e x t e n t / a d u l t e r a t i o n b e i n g , i n v e r s e l y
p r o p o r t i o n a l t o th;' p r i c e .
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S h r i Krishnzppa s a i d t h s t t h e t o t ; a l annual p r o d u c t i o n
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of xzilk i n 3 n d i a was about 5,000 lr&h mau-rlds valued c t Rs.800
crores, 0.r over Rs.2 c r o r e s p a r day.
But thc p e r - c a p i t a supply, ho ccntinued, c m c t o b a r e l y
2.75 chhataks p e r diem,which w3s o n l y aScut
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t h i r d of t h e
o p t i m a l r q t l o n q l pcquirernent, Woreover, t h e sczy'i.7-. varj-6d w i d e l y
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i n d i f f e r e n t p a r t s a n d wss as l b w cs h 2 l f a ckLnnt~.k i n Assam
and only a l i t t l e h i g h e r in O r i s s a ane I!?est bengal.
S h r i Krishnappa s a i d t h a t t h e p r i c e
h i ~ h e s ti n c i t i e s
-- v a r i e d
--
nsturally, the
f r o m 8 annzs t o a rupee p e r s e e r
depending upon t h e a v a i l a a l l i t g of milk and, t h e ~ s f o r e ,i t s
.
.
q u a l i t y r L r e c e n t r e p o r t i n r e s p e c t o f t h e DelhS Munfcipal area
&owed t h a t d u r i n g t h e 1 2 months from June 1956 t o May 1957,
679 o u t of 2,242 samples o f m i l k e x m i n e d by t h e municipal
health a u t h o r i t i e s
-- n e a r l y one
i n every t h r e e
-- were f o u n d
t o be a d u l t e r a t e d by a b s t r a c t i o n of f a t o r a d d i t i o n o f water,
the degree of a d u l t e r a t i o n being a s h i g h a s 33.3 p e r c e n t Ln sGme
caseso
ADULTERfiTION GF XILX AND DA1;IY PRODUCTS
I n t h e o p i n i o n of the Deputy M i n i s t e r , t h i s
sad s t a t e of a f f a i r s was due t o t h e unorganised s t a t e o f d e i r y
i n d u s t r y . Milk was g e n e r a l l y yroduced m d vended by innumerable
small-scale producers o r v e n d s r s , and as t h e demmd was mainly
.
concentrated in urban c e n t r e s , hundreds of thousands of m i l c h
animals were k e p t i n s n s l l h e r d s within t h e c i t y p r e c i n c t s under
c o n d i t i o n s of extreme congesticn 2nd I n s a n i t s t l o n , Delkf,
C a l c u t t a , Bombay, Madras, Kmpur, E m g a l o r e , Hgderabad, b m r i t s a r ;
in f a c t , a l l l a r g e c i t i e s dl over t h e country were f u l l o f stablee&,'
.,. Shri
Krishnappa
.a
S h r i ~ r i s h n ~ . p p a 'Speech
s
(Contd. )
S h r i Krishnappa
remarked
t h a t an i n d i v i d u a l producer produced
L
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a few s e e r s of milk, added a few s e e r s of water o r skim milk
t o i t , o r kot i t p a r t i a l l y skimmed, and d i s t r i b u t e d i t about
a s h e l i k e c . In t h i s , w a y , h e could u n d e r s e l l anyone Secause i t
c o s t him n o t h i n g t o d i l u t e h i s produce a l i t t l e more t o b r i n g down
i t s s a l e p r i c e . The l a r g e - s c a l e c o n c e n t r a t i o n of m i l c h ,animals
i n t h e c i t i e s and t h e u n c o n t r o l l e d s a l e of milk i n t h i s manner
was t h e most p o t e n t f a c t o r which had been m i l i t a t i n g a g a i n s t
t h e development of organised I ? a i r y i n g on sound b a s i s .
Modern d a i r y farms had f a i l e d t o t h r i v e under t h i s
suffocating climate,
N
Even t h e milk supply schemes i n i t i a t e d
by t h e S t a t e Governments i n d i f f e r e n t p a r t s of t h e country had
been l a n g u i s h i n g i n some c a s e s because of such unhealthy
competit ion.
S h r i Krishnappa s a i d t h a t what h e had s t a t e d about milk
wzs e q u a l l y t r u e of o t h e r d a i r y products. F o r i n s t a n c e ,
a d u l t e r a t f o n of ghee and b u t t e r w i t h f a t s of v e g e t a b l e o r i g i n
was extremely common, S i m i l s r l y , curd, khoa and ch3?.ma, o u r
o t h e r p r i n c i p a l d a i r y products, a s u s u a l l y s o l d , were ~ . d u - l t e r a t e d
i n v a r i o u s ways, N a t u r a l l y , t h e p u b l i c had l o s t f a i t h and
bought t h e cheapest i n t h e b e l i e f t h a t when a d u l t e r a t i o n was
almost u n i v e r s a l why more should be paid.
DIFFICULTIES I N 03GANISED D A I R Y I N G
S h r i Krishnappa pointed o u t t h a t t h e I n d i a n s t a t u t e
contained a l e g a l p r o v i s i o n t o p r e v e n t a d u l t e r a t i o n of food
i n c l u d i n g m i l k , U n t i l 1954 such l e g i s l a t i o n was provided under
t h e Pure Food h c t . But a s t h e Act s u f f e r e d from some d e f e c t s
and i t s provision's somewhat v a r i e d from S t a t e t o S t a t e , i t was
r e p l a c e d by t h e new P r e v e n t i o n o f Food h d u l t e r a t i o n Act, 1954.
But t h e p o s i t i o n d i d n o t seem t o h:3ve
improved. D i d
t h e new iict need r e v i s i o n i n some r e s p e c t s o r t h e r u l e s s u f f e r
from some lacuane, he asked. O r was t h e enforcement of t h e Let
S h r i Krishnappa' s Speech ( Conad. )
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S h r i Krishneppa, i n conclusion, s a i d t h a t t h e Conference of
Dairy and H e a l t h O f f i c e r s hsd been convened t o provide a
s o l u t i o n t o d a i r y problems an4 t c suggest t h e s t e p s t o be t a k e n
for. c r e a t i n g a climate
i n t u s t r y and s u c c e s s of
in
which I rcwth o f o r g a n i s e d d a i r y
d a i r y 2evelopxent p r o j e c t s
i n c l u d e d i n t h e second P l a n could be ensured.