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DAIRYING IN GUJARAT
A Statistical Profile
2013
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Part I.
General Statistics
PEOPLE:
Census records place Gujarat’s human population at 60.4million in 2011. Half that population
is distributed across seven districts, namely, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Banaskantha,
Bhavnagar and Junagadh, with the rest spread across the remaining 19 districts. As elsewhere,
urbanisation is on the rise, with urban areas accounting for 43 per cent of the population.
The State has 918 females per 1,000males as against the national average of 940 females per thousand.
GDP:
With five per cent population of the country, Gujarat accounts for more than seven percent of
the national Gross Domestic Product. Agricultural output grew at a higher annual rate than the all-
India one (2005-06 to 2012-13).
About 43 lakh families keep livestock in Gujarat as a primary or secondary source of income. Livestock
output at constant prices was reported at Rs. 141 billion in 2011-12, of which milk contributes about
86 per cent, or Rs. 122 billion. The livestock sub-sector (comprising milk, meat, egg, dung and others),
contributes five per cent of the total GDP of Gujarat, or 23 per cent of the agriculture and allied sectors.