Milk production increased over six times, from 20.8 million tonnes in 1970, to 133 million tonnes in 2012. Production of beef from the buffalo herd has recently been undertaken for export shipments, putting India into the top three bovine meat exporters in the world (Box 7.2 in Chapter 7). As the second largest producer of fish in the world, India’s production has grown almost four times since 1980, including a 12-fold increase in aquaculture production during this period. Both events are described below. To ensure market support, the Food Corporation of India and the mechanism of market support prices were established in the mid-1960s.