Comparision of organic dairy standards with the practices followed by the farmers

Organic Dairy Farming is a way for increasing the export of dairy products and also to strengthen the rural farmers. India the number one milk producer in the world, to compete in the global market India has to improve its standards and quality systems. To provide a focused and well directed development of organic agriculture and quality products, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, launched a National Program on Organic Production (NPOP) in the year 2000, which was formally notified in October 2001 under the Foreign Trade and Development Act (FTDR Act). But this has to be hastened and standardized form the very beginning by clear policy support and strategic direction from the Government of India. As, India has the potential to explore in the organic dairying, as more than 70 per cent of the practices followed by the farmers are as per organic production standards except for some of the requirements like feeding organically certifiable feed to animals, maintaining records, maintaining animals in organic holding since its birth, providing bedding materials, providing animals vitamins, trace elements and supplements from natural origin are to be fulfilled.