R&D Roadmap to Strengthen the Indian Dairy Sector Dr A.K. SRIVASTAVA Former Chairman, Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, New Delhi Former Director, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal March 12, 2019 There is a growing demand for safe, nutritious, health promoting milk products calling for value addition, product diversification and complete quality assurance. This warrants formulation of policies and programmes to control cost of milk production to evolve financially viable, environment friendly and user beneficial processing technologies as well as to facilitate flow of milk to the organised sector and strengthen the legitimate interests of various stakeholders at the national and international level.