Livestock Scenario

“The livestock sub sector has emerged as one of the key components of agricultural growth in developing countries in recent years. The Indian livestock system is the endeavor of small holders and it is a centuries old tradition. The section provides extensive information on live stock scenario in Kerala”

As a result of gradual transition from subsistence to market system, the economic dimensions of livestock keeping have assumed increasing significance in household behavior. Over 70 percentages of the rural households in India depend on livestock farming for supplementary income. The sector is highly gender sensitive and over 90 per cent of activities related to care and management of livestock are carried out by women folk in the family. In Kerala majority of livestock owning farmers are either small and marginal or even landless. In view of its suitability for combining with crop sub sector and sustainability as a household enterprise with the active involvement of women, it is emerging as a very popular supplementary avocation in the small farms.

Year	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Milk Yield  (Kg)	2782	2899	2894	2940	3052	3121	3074	3230	3269

 

Figure: First standard lactation yield of cows in Progeny Testing area

 

Year	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Daily Milk Yield (kg/day)	7.85	8.43	8.57	8.92	9.02	9.11	8.55	8.62	10.18

Source: Meeting of Technical Committee of Directors for Improvement of Animal Husbandry, Dairying Statistics, GOI

 

Figure: Daily milk yield of cow crossbred cows

 

Year	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Daily Milk Yield (kg/day)	2.37	2.09	1.85	2.03	0.59	0.94	2.55

         Source: Meeting of Technical Committee of Directors for Improvement of Animal Husbandry, Dairying Statistics, GOI

 

 Figure: Daily milk yield of cow Non descript / Indigenous cows

Year	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Milk (Lakh MT)	25.09	26.45	27.16	27.91	26.55	27.11	26.50

Source: Department of Animal Husbandry, Kerala

Figure: Total Milk production – Kerala

Animal	Type	Number in thousands		Per cent change (%)
		2007	2012
Cattle	Crossbred	1,621	1,252	−22.76
	Indigenous	119	77	−35.25
	Total	1,740	1,329	−23.62
Buffalo	All	58	102	+75.86

Bovine population over the years – Kerala
(in thousands)

Category	1956	1961	1966	1972	1977	1982	1987	1996	2003	2007	2012
Crossbreds					1355	1453	1702	2287	1735	1621	1252
Indigenous					1651	1644	1722	1109	387	119	77
Total cattle	2510	2753	2857	2856	3006	3097	3424	3396	2122	1740	1329
% increase		9.68	3.78	-0.04	5.25	3.03	10.56	-0.82	-37.51	-18.00	-23.62
Buffaloes	488	485	471	472	454	409	329	165	65	58	102
% increase		-0.61	-2.89	0.21	-3.81	-9.91	-19.56	-49.85	-60.60	-10.76	+75.86
Total bovines	2998	3238	3328	3328	3460	3506	3753	3561	2187	1798	1431
% increase		8.01	2.78	0.00	3.97	1.33	7.05	-5.12	-38.58	-17.78	-20.41

Supply & Demand Projections for Milk in Kerala under Alternative Scenarios, 2010−2030

Year	Projected Supply in ‘000 tonnes
	Base-line	Interventionist	Optimistic	Demand
BE 2009/10 (Base-year)	2,489.9	2,489.9	2,489.9	2794.5
2015	2,300.1	2,832.0	3,063.2	3,115.5
2020	2,159.1	3,154.2	3,640.9	3,293.0
2025	2,031.0	3,514.6	4,328.0	3,421.3
2030	1,913.7	3,917.8	5,145.2	3,519.5

Source: Computations by NCAER