" "I grew up with the ayurvedic wisdom that milk and milk products are
essential, not only as nutrients but also because they have medicinal
value," says Noida-based ayurveda researcher Dr Vinod Verma. "For"

"India has one of the largest livestock
population in the world. Fifty percent of the buffaloes and twenty
percent of the cattle in the world are found in India, most of which
are milch cows and milch buffaloes.

Dairy development in India has been acknowledged the world over as one
of modern India's most successful developmental programme. India is
the second largest milk producing country with anticipated production
of about 78 million tons during 1999-2000.."