Previous Year Question

In 2011-12, India's total milk production was approximately 127.90 million tonnes. Among the States given, Uttar Pradesh ranked first with a milk production of 22.556 million tonnes.

Among the given options, milk production in 2011-12 was approximately—

• Uttar Pradesh — 22.556 million tonnes

• Rajasthan — 13.512 million tonnes

• Gujarat — 9.817 million tonnes

• Punjab — 9.551 million tonnes

Thus, the production of Uttar Pradesh was nearly 9 million tonnes higher than that of Rajasthan.

The large bovine population of Uttar Pradesh, particularly its buffalo population, plays an important role in milk production. In the 2013-14 livestock data as well, Uttar Pradesh led buffalo milk production with about 16.18 million tonnes.

The question asks about total milk production, not productivity per animal or per-capita milk availability. For example, Punjab has had very high per-capita milk availability, but Uttar Pradesh was ahead in total production.