The Livestock Sector in India: Progress and Challenges by Vijay Sardana, Poultry Federation of India. Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia - MIID conference "Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia: Achieving food and nutrition security by 2030" on Oct 30-31, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar.

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Vijay SARDANA FICA, MIMA
LLB, PGDM (IIM, Ahmedabad), M.Sc. (Food tech) (CFTRI), B.Sc. (Dairy tech)
PGD in Arbitration, Intl. Trade Laws & Alt. Dispute Resolution, IPR (WIPO), Justice (Harvard)
Advocate & Techno-Legal & Trade Policy Expert, Arbitrator & Mediator
Independent Director on various Boards & on Expert Committees
ARPLBlog: Vijay Sardana Online
Presentation at International Conference on
“Evolving Agri-food Systems in Asia” by ReSAKSS IFPRI &
MIID on Oct. 30-31, 2019 at Yangon, Myanmar

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Livestock Sector of India
Category
Population 2019
(in million)
Population 2012
(in million)
Growth %
Cattle 192.49 190.90 0.83
Buffalo 109.85 108.70 1.06
Sheep 74.26 65.07 14.13
Goat 148.88 135.17 10.14
Pig 9.06 10.29 -1203
Mithun 0.38 0.30 26.66
Yak 0.06 0.08 -25.00
Horse & Ponies 0.34 0.63 -45.58
Mule 0.08 0.20 -57.09
Donkey 0.12 0.32 -61.23
Camel 0.25 0.40 -37.05
Total Livestock 535.78 512.06 4.63
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• The poultry population has increased in the country from 729.2
million to 851.81 million which is 16.80 percent of the rise.

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Let us discussion India in 2024
• Livestock Population : 558 million
• Poultry Population : 1000 million
• Human Population : 1450 million
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• Cultivable Land : 140 million Hectare
• Land Available/capita : 96 square meter
Livestock is like ATM system for farmers and
helps in addressing their economic stress.

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Prospectus of Livestock Sector in India
• A balanced diet should provide around 50-60% of
total calories from carbohydrates, preferably from
complex carbohydrates, about 10-15% from
proteins and 20-30% from both visible and invisible
fat.
• The ICMR recommended consuming 10.5 kilos of
poultry meat and 180 eggs per annum, 110 litres
per annum.
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Livestock Products Demand by 2024 to
ensure minimum RDA as per ICMR
• Milk : About 160 million tons
• Poultry Meat @ 70% : About 10 million tons
• @ 60% meat yield : About 16.66 million tons
• Egg @ 70% : About 183 Billion eggs
Or say 9.1 Million tons
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Feed Requirements for Livestock
• Chicken Feed for Meat production : 30 million tons
• Layer feed for Egg production : 23 million tons
• Dairy Feed for Milk production : 112 million tons
• Total feed Requirement : 160 million tons
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Water Requirement for Livestock Sector
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• Water for Meat production : 4,300 m 3 /ton
• Water for Egg production : 3,300 m 3 /ton
• Water for Milk production : 1,000 m 3 /ton
Total Water Requirement :
• Water for Meat production : 43,000 million m 3
• Water for Egg production : 33,000 million m3
• Water for Milk production : 160,000 million m3
• Total Water requirements : 236,000 million m3
• Total Water requirements : 236 Billion m3

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Water Situation in India
• Central Water Commission is monitoring live storage status of
120 reservoirs of the country, the live storage capacity of
257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the
country.
• Out of these reservoirs, 44 reservoirs have hydropower benefit
with installed capacity of more than 60 MW. The total live
storage capacity of these 120 reservoirs is 170.328 BCM
which is about 66.06% of the live storage capacity of 257.812
BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country.
• Total Water requirements for milk, chicken meat and egg
production to feed India as per minimum nutritional
recommendation as per ICMR by 2024 will be : 236 BCM
Where is the water to produce Milk, Meat and Egg?
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Land use per livestock product
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• Land for Meat production : 9000 m2/ton
• Land for Egg production : 5000 m2/ton
• Land for Milk production : 1500 m 2/ton
Total Land Requirement :
• Land for Meat production : 9 million ha
• Land for Egg production : 4.5 million ha
• Land for Milk production : 24 million ha
• Total Land requirements : 37.5 million ha
• Total Land : 328.7 million ha : 11.4% of total land

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Conclusion
• India must serious plan how to meet the growing
demand animal products due to growing population
and depleting natural resources.
• Breed, feed and water all will be serous challenge.
• Any disturbance in supply side will increase the
consumer price and may open the market for large
import of livestock products in to India.
• This will impact the domestic production system
and may impact farmers income due to low cost
imported livestock products.
• I can see complex situation emerging for rural
income and food inflation. This will hurt both
income and nutrition security.
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Open for discussion
Thank you very much.
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