Srinagar, Dec. 4 -- The dairy sector in Jammu and Kashmir is no longer just about litres and litres of milk; it is about whether governance can convert abundance into empowerment. The recent appraisal of the new roadmap is significant not because it repeats familiar statistics, but because it exposes a paradox that has long gone unaddressed: 80 lakh litres produced daily, only 4 lakh litres processed. This is not a success story; it is a bottleneck that drains value from farmers and keeps the sector locked in subsistence.

What makes this moment different is the government's insistence on measuring outcomes of interventions already underway under HADP and borrowing lessons from states that have succeeded. Gujarat's cooperative revolution ...