Panaji: Goa’s monthly milk production is not enough to meet even a single day’s demand, leaving the coastal state heavily reliant on imports from neighbouring states, data tabled in the Legislative Assembly has revealed.
State Animal Husbandry minister Nilkant Halarnkar, in a written reply tabled on the floor of the House on Wednesday, stated that the average monthly procurement by State Co-operative Milk Producer’s Union Ltd, popularly known as “Goa Dairy” was 37,986 litre for the financial year 2024-25 while during the same time, the average daily requirement from the customers was 48,818 litres.
Similarly, the Goa Dairy has monthly procured an average 35,653 litres of milk till June 2025 (for the current fiscal), while average per day requirement was 45,380 litres, the minister told the House in response to the question tabled by MGP MLA Jit Arolkar.
“As interpreted from the data from GoaDairy above, since Average sales exceeds monthly milk procurement and the buffer quantity is imported from other states, milk production in Goa itself is not sufficient to meet demand of consumer,” Halarnkar said in his reply.
Citing the probable reasons the low milk productions in the state despite the subsidies and support schemes, Halarnkar said that the youth of Goa is attracted towards tourism activities especially in the costal belt than towards farming activities and also aspire to get service related jobs.
He said that Due to fragmented land holding large scale dairying activities are not possible in the state.
The minister also pointed out towards the lack of community farming and cooperative integrated farming by crop farmers.
Due to rapid urbanisation farming activities are not taken up by youth, he said.
