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RESEARCH ARTICLEThe high correlation between milk price and human population shows the increase in price with demand.There is significant correlation with the crossbred animals in milk and the milk production where as there is nosignificant correlation between milk production and indigenous animals in milk. It is also to be noted that theMilk price is directly correlated with feed price.Fig 4. Non increasing behavior of animals in milk during the last decadeFig 5. A small increasing behavior in milk production during the last few yearsJ. Ind. Vet. Assoc., Kerala. 10 (1)From fig 4 and 5 it could be observed that even though the animals in milk are almost steady, the milkproduction is moving upwards. This shows both the higher productivity of crossbred cows and the power ofincreasing trend of the use of frozen semen for the last few years. If it could be noted to increase the number ofanimals also, this will bring a good increase in milk production in Kerala.22