{"id":217295,"date":"2022-12-06T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217295"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:03:14","slug":"sri-lanka-turns-to-india-for-help-to-boost-dairy-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-turns-to-india-for-help-to-boost-dairy-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka turns to India for help to boost dairy production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cSri Lanka turns to India for help to boost dairy production\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 6th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lanka has sought technical assistance from India\u2019s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and market leader Amul <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to boost dairy production.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why has Sri Lanka sought assistance from NDDB to boost dairy production?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Sri Lanka\u2019s domestic dairy production meets less than half of its requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dollar-strapped Sri Lanka spends about $300 million annually on dairy imports, mostly from New Zealand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the country\u2019s economy crashed earlier this year, leading to severe shortages, milk products were unavailable to most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, that&#8217;s why Sri Lanka has sought assistance from NDDB <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to boost dairy production.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of this partnership between India and Sri Lanka on dairy production?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This partnership on dairy production is not new between India and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the late 1990s, Sri Lanka had invited India\u2019s \u201cmilk man\u201d Verghese Kurien to set up the \u2018Kiriya\u2019 dairy project, named after the Sinhala word for milk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A $20 million joint venture between the NDDB and Sri Lanka\u2019s MILCO was announced but the project did not take off in the wake of resistance from nationalist worker unions and powerful business lobbies in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSri Lanka turns to India for help to boost dairy production\u201d published in Indian Express on 6th December 2022 What is the News? Sri Lanka has sought technical assistance from India\u2019s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and market leader Amul to boost dairy production. Why has Sri&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-turns-to-india-for-help-to-boost-dairy-production\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sri Lanka turns to India for help to boost dairy production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-217295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700806053,"cached_date":1704901385},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}