{"id":7459,"date":"2022-11-26T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:21:23","slug":"national-milk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-milk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Milk Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Milk Day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>National Milk Day is celebrated in India on November 26 to\u00a0<strong>honour the memory of Dr Verghese Kurien<\/strong>, who is fondly known as the father of the White Revolution.<\/li>\n<li>Kurien was also called the\u00a0<strong>Milkman of India<\/strong>\u00a0as his ideas and efforts to build a system of farmer cooperatives helped transform the country from an importer of dairy products to the world\u2019s largest milk producer.<\/li>\n<li>For his relentless service to the dairy and farming communities, Kurien was awarded the\u00a0<strong>Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963), Padma Shri (1965), Padma Bhushan (1966), World Food Prize (1989) and Padma Vibhushan (1999).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>National Milk Day raises awareness about the need for milk in human lives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is the world\u2019s largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production,<\/strong>\u00a0followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil.\n<ul>\n<li>According to the data available on the NDDB website, milk production in India has increased from 84.4 million tonnes in 2001-02 to 121.8 million tonnes in 2010-11 and 198.4 million tonnes in 2019-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Since the 1970s, most of the expansion in milk production has been in South Asia, which is the main driver of milk production growth in the developing world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1878790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Milk Day is celebrated in India on November 26 to honour the memory of Dr Verghese Kurien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}