modernization of meat and poultry processing sector
In a report titled the ‘Indian Meat Industry Perspective’, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) outlined four steps that should be taken if India’s food industry is to successfully go pink:
setting up state of the art meat processing plants
developing technologies to raise male buffalo calves for meat production
increasing the number of farmers rearing buffalo under contractual farming
establishing disease-free zones for rearing animals
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service, India became the largest exporter of buffalo meat in 2012, exporting approximately 1.5 million metric tons of beef