India to milk advantage from curbs on New Zealand dairy products

By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) – India, the world's biggest milk producer, hopes to seize on a New Zealand dairy product contamination scare to increase its exports and add market share in China and other emerging Asian countries. India's milk production is likely to rise almost 5 percent in the year to next March to 133 million tons, said R G Chandramogan, managing director of Hatsun Agro Products Ltd, one of the country's leading milk powder exporters. Traditionally, most of that production stays at home as a protein staple for a population of 1. …