Key Points
However, they consume high quantities of milk and its products, a habit that imposes a significant burden on their wallets...
On average in India, milk and milk products constitute18.2 percent of monthly food expenditure and eggs, meat and fish make up 10.8 percent...
Another key highlight in the survey was that the spending on eggs, meat and fish in rural India has gone up significantly, with monthly expenditure on these items slightly above the spends on milk and milk products...
That is, in the bottom five percent of families in terms of income levels, spending on milk in the urban areas is 1.44 times the spending on eggs, meat and fish...
In rural areas, the spending of the bottom 5 percent of households on milk and its products was only 1.24 times higher than that on eggs, meat and fish..
