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Milk provides food or more specifically animal protein in human diets, income, employment and possibly foreign exchange. Assuming dominant enterprise in milk supply chain, one from co-operative and one from private milk processing plants were selected randomly in western Maharashtra to compare the milk production, procurement, processing and distribution marketing aspects and whole milk supply chain performance under co-operative and private milk supply chain.

There is a growing concern about the regional disparities which exists at the international, national as well as at the state levels. Though the regional disparity in agriculture, industrial development, and socioeconomic development was much studied but the disparities in the dairy sector has not given much emphasis. Hence, the present study entitled "A Study on Regional Disparities in Dairy Development in Maharashtra" was undertaken with some specific objectives.

The rainfed agro ecosystem supports 40 per cent of the human and 65 per cent of the livestock population, provides 44 per cent of food requirement and it has played and continues to play a critical role in Indian agriculture (Singh et al., 2004). In such areas crop production becomes relatively difficult as it mainly depends upon the intensity and frequency of rainfall. Mixed crop livestock farming has been adopted by the farmers in these areas through generations of experience. Dairy production has become an important component of rural development programmes in the rainfed areas of India,...