India lives in her villages and more than 72% of her population is rural and 60% of people are engaged in agriculture as their profession. About 70 million farm families, which means one out of every two rural households are involved in dairy farming in India. It is a class of agricultural and more properly an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female goats, cattle, or certain other lactating livestock for long term production of milk, for retail and processing purpose.

Most of the farmers in the field of dairy farming sell the male calves  of their cows for veal production, rather than raising non-milk producing stock. Dairy farming includes breeding and care of milk yielding cattle, purchasing milk and processing it into a number of dairy products. The important statistics about Indian milk production reveals that more than 70% of milk is being produced by marginal and small landless farmers. Dairy farming has played a crucial role in strengthening the rural economy of the nation and it has been recognized as an instrument for bringing about socio-economic transformation.

In India, there exist a symbiotic relationship between agriculture and dairy farming and the agricultural by products produce feed and fodder for the cattle, on the other hand cattle offers necessary power to different agricultural operations, in addition to nutritional security and ready cash for farming families to sell their surplus milk. Dairy farming brings about a wide range of milk products like Yoghurt, Powdered milk, condensed milk, ghee, cheese, butter and milk in addition to offering raw materials to other industries as well. The nation enjoys the location advantage in the international market and it is the largest producer of milk and second largest production of milk products in the whole world. Moreover, the cost of milk offered in India is very less as compared to the cost of milk in other nations like Japan and the USA. With the production expected to triple in the next decade, India will sure emerge as the leading producer of milk products in the whole world rather than in the second place.

Government jobs opportunities in Dairy Farming:

Job opportunities exist not only in private sector, but there is a wide of public sector job opportunities in dairy farming in the nation. the National Dairy Development Board in the nation is the core Public Sector Unit in this filed and almost every state in the nation has the state-run Amul Co-operatives, which has increased the employment opportunities in the field of dairy farming manifold.

There are more than 400 dairy plants in the nation making different types of milk products, these plants are looking for well-training personnel for running the plants, and therefore candidates with experience in dairy farming can find job opportunities in these plants.

Thus, dairy farming not only improves the economic standard of the nation, but also has developed the employment opportunities not only for professionals with degrees in the field of dairy technology, but also to villagers, who do not have educational qualification, but have experience in the field of dairy farming.